We proposed to make that monthly limit 15 per cent and let the Secretary withhold the 5 per cent. But if that had been in the law the 5 per cent would have been quickly absorbed. You will notice in some recommendations for amendment to the 3 per cent resolution which is now pending in the other body and which was passed in this body one recommendation indorsed by the Federal Council of Churches is that there be added to any restrictive immigration act the following: A general clemency clause authorizing the Secretary of Labor to deal humanely with exceptional cases in order to avoid hardships amounting to inhumanity. We have not been able to find quite the words in which to do that. We have had to depend on the ninth proviso of the third section of the Burnett Immigration Act. which authorizes the Secretary to admit temporarily. under bond. certain aliens. Under the old law. of course. that applied to the inadmissible. But I think it is properly applied now to those who have right and reason for appeal to remain in excess of quota. but. of course. if applied temporarily only. the time must come when they should go out.
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