The 1921 law was a temporary law. enacted until we could come here and have ample time to pass a permament immigration law. We are now confronted with the question of determining a permanent immigration policy to be fixed by Congress. We have delayed this matter from year to year. to show our courtesy and consideration for Japan. we delayed the matter. until now it has come up for the fixing of a permanent policy in connection with the mattek of immigration. The time has come for that policy to be fixed definitely. firmly. but courteously. and I. for one. will never consent to gentlemanly agreements by which the Secretary of State of this country and the secretary of foreign affairs of some other country can determine the question of immigration into this country. and then the method of enforcing it and seeing that it is executed. I think that is a sovereign power belonging to the Congress. which ought to be exercised by the Congress. and I would not concede that right to any other nation.
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