It debars the criminal. the physically and mentally defective. paupers. persons liable to become public charges. and the illiterate and every possible class of undesirables. Mr. Chairman. let me point out that since that act was enacted. seven years ago. tile net increase of immigration from Europe has been only 761.000. and consider. gentlemen. tiat only during the past two years the 3 per cent quota act has been in operation. During the latter part of 1918 and early in 1919 the leader of the restrictionists. the late Mr. Burnett. of Alabama. introduced a bill to suspend Immigration. having charged that millions were ready to come. At that. time also the gentlemen from Washington and California made statements that 10.000.000 were in foreign ports waiting for transportation. All the professional publicists and propagandists. such as Kenneth L.
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