Speech #680069964

In effect. amount to this: I seek by them to Incorporate into this bill the provisions now in theHouse billbearing upon the question of orientalincluding Japaneseimmigration. The purpose of these amendments is. if they are adoptedas I sincerely hope they will beto exclude from this country all aliens Ineligible to citizenship. with certain specified exceptions. such as those who may come under any existing treaty of trade or navigation. also students who may desire to come to our country to enter schools. calleges. universities designated by them and approved by our Secretary of Labor or other Secretaries. also ministers of their religion and their wives and children of a certain age. and also. of course. all those who were here lawfully. absent temporarily. to return. and. of course. the other exceptions which are to be found in the bill as reported by the committee. In a word. we take the position that we should have a policy in respect to immigration which runs parallel with and in harmony with the centuryold policy of ntaturaliz/ation. If the Senator will permit an added word. the latter policythe policy of naturalization--commenced away yonder in 1790. .as doubtless Senators recall. and that policy has come down through the century. and by that policy we have excluded from citizenship over onehalf of the human races of the earth. We have adhered to it with one exception which was brought about after the unhappy Civil War. Now. inasmuch as we have a national policy in regard to citizenship. and grant that great privilege only to certain races of men. we take the position that a parallel policy should be adopted in respect of Immigration. So the amendments which I have proposed seek to add to the bill which is before the Senate such provisions. taken almost literally from the House bill. as will achieve the end we have il view. and in saying this I am not speaking for my own State alone. nor for any group of our people. The position I am thus indicating has been formally indorsed by the American Federation of Labor. by the American Legion. by the National Grange. by the Native Sons of the Golden West. by hundreds of patriotic associations or bodies of men and women throughout our country. So I hope that Senators will do me and the cause for wlch I stand the honor of looking over the proposed amendments. and. if you have not yet been furnished with the reports. that you will at an early time during the discussion read what I think is a very convincing report of the House Committee oil Immigration when it reported the socalled Albert Johnson immigration bill. House bill 7995. I thank tile Sentor for permitting me to Interrupt him.