Then the conferees went back into conference on that question. The President again sent for them. and they have been in hot water on the proposition all the time. Why. in the interest of the American people and civilization and of restrictive immigration. did they not go into conference this last time and try to reduce the number who could come in .by eliminating the ministers andi teachers. at least? Oh. I wish that we could write upon the statute books now an immigration law restricting immigration to 2 per cent based on the census of 1890 and provide that in 1925 only 160.000 Immigrants shall come within the portals of the United States and after 1925 the number shall be 150.000. according to the Reed amendment. But that has not been done. The bill. provides that 150.000 may enter after 1925. but It also admits all others within the exceptions.
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