Speech #680079346

The Chair is ready to rule. The amendment offered by the gentleman from Indiana as a new section reads as follows: Sac. 4J. (a) Whenever the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of Commerce shall jointly certify that unemployment exists in the continental United States or any specified Territory or insular possession thereof to such an extent as In their opinion Immigration thereto should be suspended in whole or in part from all or certain" designated countries. the President of the United States shall by proclamation suspend inmigration for the time and to the extent set forth in such certificate. and during such time Immigration certificates shall not be Issued to any immigrant who is a. national of any country designated In such proclamation. nor shal such Immigrant be permitted to enter the continental United States or such specified Territory or insular possession thereof. (b) Whenever the Secretary of Labor Is satisfied that any foreign government has restricted the issuance of passports to certain of its nationals. or limits the issuance of passports to certain classes or individuals. or otherwise discriminates In the issuance of such passports. he may so certify to the Secretary of State. who shall. thereupon order and direct American consular officers to refuse the issuance of immigration certificates to the nationals of such government. and no application: for immigration certificates made by or on behalf of a national of such foreign government shall be considered. nor shall an immigration certificate be Issued to such national during the time such order remains in force. Then (c) gives the- Commissioner of Immigration. approved by the Secretary of Labor. certain powers in reference to deportation. The question of germaneness in. this latter section is not entirely clear. but the Chair is inclined to the opinion that the amendment is germane. The whole bill deals. with the question of restricting the number of aliens who. can come to this: country. and it seems to the Chair that an amendment providing that all could be kept out for a certain time would. be: germane.. and that. regardless of the fact that it departs from the general trend of the bill. it does not depart to such an extent as to affect the germaneness. and therefore the point of order is overruled.