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I presume all who have served In this. the first session of the Sixtyeighth Congress--now soon to adjournwill agree that it has been a hard and strenuous session. Many of the problems before us have been hard ones. I am sorry to have to come from the Committee on Immigration and Natlaralization. as its chairman. to impose one more hard Immigration problem upon you. I come. however. with a proper resolution. I have presented a detailed report. and I ask for a twothirds vote for it. It is a proper. just. and humane and a resolution with a high Christian purpose. It is worthy of the United States Government at a time when we are making a most radical change in our immigration policies. All Members know that during the three years under which we have had a quota restriction act there have been hardships to the extreme. The department has struggled along as best it could. trying to hold all cases to the exact bounds of the quota law. On July 1 there goes into effect the new restrictive Immigration act. which. in my opinion. is much more restrictive than many of us who voted for It realize. It sets a new and limited number for Immigrants. and it tightens materially the basic 1917 immigration act and all other immigration laws. It even tightens the Chinese exclusion law50 per cent. probably. Now. I believe-