That foreign groups. industrial Interests. and politicians have borne with bard unholy political pressure against the enforcement of the 3 per cent quota law. as they have against other portions of the law. is shown by the testimony of Assistant Secretary of Labor Henning. who. speaking of appeals for the admission of excess quota immigrants. said: Just as I was trying to get out some Congressmans stenographer came in with an armful of them and I went through them hurriedly. (Hearings December 19. 1921. p. 224.) And by the statement of Chairman JOHNsoN. as reported on page 235 of the same hearings: * * . neither do I think we are justified in leaving condltions as they are. with Members of Congress working for their constituents. with Senators working for their constituents. further pressing the department. The enforcement of the 8 per cent quota law has been discreditable and subversive of its purpose. R6peatedly great groups. numbering thousands. have been admitted In plain violation of its terms. Congress has twice during the last three years stultified Itself by pretending to validate these lawless acts months after they were done.
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