Mr. Speaker. after a reasonable time for debate on some of the disputed items of the. immigration bill. I shall move to concur in the conference report. which represents some yielding on the part of both Senate and House. with the result that the restriction bill is more restrictive than when it went from the House. The immigration bill. if enacted into law. will go into effect July 1. I regret that we could not agree upon a plan by which the sections affecting Japanese immigration might have been deferre d a few months. inasmuch as the number of Japanese who could have come In as immigrants would have been but 10 per month. The proposal did not contemplate the making of an immigration treaty. nor did it pave the way for another agreement. I wish that I could make that clear. Members of Congress. of course. know that the original proposition which reached the Senate and House conferees. that the socalled exclusion clause be deferred some 20 months. with a proviso that if a treaty could be negotiated the exclu Sion clause should not go into effect. was never at any time before either House or Senate.
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