Speaker and gentlemen. this resolution 268 is presented for the purpose of continuing for one year from July I the present 3 per cent restrictive act. It is offered so that the people of the United States may continue to have the benefit of that restriction. I am of the opintion that never again will the people of the- United States return to the old custom of free immigration. The present 3 per cent restrictive act in the first five months of its operation reluced the net number of new immigrants in this country to 44.014. In the eight months that the law has operated it is probable that more aliens have gone out of the United States than have come in. Today Ellis Island is more nearly a desert than it has been for 20 years. The number of detention cases on hand there today is only about 400 as compared with an average of 2.000 or more daily for a long time past. New immigrants are arriving now at the rate of only 1.500 per week. whereas for every month of the year preceding this 3 per cent restrictive. act the averagenumber coming in was 15.000 a week.
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