That act has been a beneficial act. It had the effect of restricting the flow to this country of the hordes from the warridden and distressed countries of Europe. of multitudes of people whom. however much we might sympathize with them. we could not possibly hope to assimilate en masse. But it has produced the very troubles which we of this House. the gentleman from Texas amolng the rest. anticipated it would produce. and the reason that it has produced those troubles is because any immigration act. as was said very properly by a witness before our coilmittee the other day. deals not with sacks of flour. deals not with money. deals not with indebtedness owed by foreign countries. but deals with human beings. deals with flesh and blood. and any merely mathematical restriction act will not remedy that. I prefer our own act which was passed by the House to that one passed by the Senate and which. we accepted as being at all events a restriction. even with its faults. but any mathematical restrictive act has the limitations which I Iave mentioned. Now. before I proceed further I want to pay my most sincere compliments. my heartfelt compliments. to the gentlenman from Texas [Mr.
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