The three members who signed the minority report are men of the same views as mine. We only differ on what appears to me to be a very small matter of detail. It strikes me as unfortunate. indeed. that those of us who believe. with almost religious fervor. in strong restriction of immigration. who have worked for it in and out of Congress. who have spent most of our time discussing it from the public platform and endeavoring to arouse the country to the imminent dangers of the mongrelization of our American blood and the decay of our American ideals attendant upon the admission of vast alien hordesit strikes me as unfortunate. I say. that we of identical views on the main point should now be split on such a minor matter as is here involved. Up to 1907 the United States had no general law limiting immigration. III that year Congress passed the act excluding those who were likely to become a public charge. those who were insane or mentally deficientpolygamists. anarchists. and people who were the bearers of contagious diseases. In 1917. under the leadership of that patriotic statesman from Alabama. the Hon. John Burnett. former chairman of the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. Congress passed the literacy test law over the veto of President Wilson. after a similar bill had been vetoed in previous Congresses by Presidents Taft and Cleveland. In 1921 the last preceding Congress took the great step of the 3 per cent limitation law. cutting down the number of admissible aliens of any nationality to 3 per cent of the unnaturalized aliens of that nationality residing in the United States according to the 1910 census. The House of Representatives of the present Congress has passed a resolution extending that law for another year from June 30. 1922.
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