Speech #680116487

I stated in detail. my views and followed with an enumeration of important matters I was. in favor- of. The statement made was: I am therefore ih favor of20. An exclusion law excluding from the United States and Territories all Asiatics except certified merchants. students. and travelers. Having been elected 4t the November. 1910. election I came on to Washington early in 1911. In the spring of 1911. President Taft called an extra session of Congress. and at that session I introduced my first Asiatic exclusion bill on August 11. 1911. Sixtysecond Congress. first session. being. House bill 13500. In the Sixtythird Congress. first session. on April 7. 1913. House bill 102 was introduced. This was a very full and comprehensive biU to. exclude Asiatics. which included. Japanese. I constantly kept this legislation. before the Committee on Iiumigration and Naturalization of the House. the Congress. and the country. Reintroducing it each Congress thereafter. the last being House bill 113. Sixtyeighth Congress. first session. In 1917 we were able to assist in placing on the immigration bill that finally passed both Houses a provision excluding the Hindoos. We tried to have Japanese placed in the same barred zone. but in this we failed. Have been a member of the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization continually since 1913. Helpeff to write and pass the immigration act of February 5. 1917. and all immigration and naturalization laws since 1913. On June 27. 11922Sixtyseventh Congress. second! sessionI introduced H. R. 12193 The bill was the first ever introduced in Congress carrying tile provision that "no alien. ineligible to citizenship should be- admitted to. the United States." The provisions of H.