Mr. Speaker and gentlemen. with so much time for debate it would seem we might possibly look carefully and without rancor into this particular provision which seems for the moment likely to jeopardize the final enactment of the immigration bill which had recently the vote of a large majority of the membership of this House. lain convinced that the way to make sure that we absolutely secure Japanese exclusion is to allow the eight months grace requested by the President and by the Secretary of State. If Members will Ibe good enough to remember that this bill was introduced on the first day of this session. December 5. and it had then in it the exclusion clause to go Into effect July 1. they will see that we meant then to allow several mouths for the clause to go into effect. Your Committee on Immigration and Naturalization held hearings every day throughout the Christmas holidays. We thought we could have the bill out and on the calendar by the $th or the 10th of January and that it would be among the first measures passed by the House. We were not able to work quite so fast.
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