Mr. Chairman and gentlemen. I want to preface the few remarks I shall now make in expressing my appreciation of the excellent work that has been done on this important question by the Committee on Immigration and the distinguished gentleman from Washington. its able chai rman. We are now considering who are quota immigrants. This is most important. for if a mistake is made here we weaken the quota provisions to that extent. I regret to say that the United States Cofirt for the Southern District of New York. and even the circut court of appeals for that circuit. have so construed the quota law as to take most of the teeth out of it. if their construction should happen to be sustained by the United States Supreme Court. The effect of the decisions caused the steamship companies to give great publicity to them. for it would have meant thousands of additional Immigrants in excess of the quota. I have read the law carefully. and the decisions. I think the court Is clearly wrong and one can not read the opinion without getting. the distinct impression that the court has been unconsciously influenced by local environment or the claimed humanities of the case to change the express will of Congress.
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