Mr. President. this amendment was not offered by me. as the Senator from California mistakenly stated. but it is one of the committee amendments to the bill. I think I speak the feeling of the entire Committee on Immigration when I say that one of the principal points we had in mind was to do nothing offensive to the Japanese. that one of our purposes in putting this amendment in was to recognize the gentlemens agreement. and that we felt. further. that the restriction of Japanese immigration could best be accomplished by combining the gentlemens agreement with a very rigid quota law which would hold down the number of Japanese to the minimum. for at the same time we would thus get the cooperation of the Japanese Government in applying that quota law. It was our feeling that that would be more effective than such an exclusion section as has been offered by the Senator from California. It was a choice of methods.
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