Mr. President. I want to make a brief statement about the workings of the immigration law which was passed by the Congress last June. My purpose in making it at this time is to correct. if I can. some of the misstatements that are in circulation regarding the working of that law and to forestall. if I can. some of the mistaken amendments to it that are now being agitated. We have just received the statistics which show the operation of the law for its first six months. We know now how the new policy is working out In actual practice. and I want. just as briefly as I can. to explain to the Senate what is happening to the United States under Its present immigration policy. Senators will recall that the three main objects in the passage of the law were as follows: First. to secure a more uniform distribution of the arriving immigrants through the year. You will remember that before this they were all bunched in about four months and one week at the beginning of each fiscal year. and that their arrival in large numbers at the beginning of each of the first five nmonths of the fiscal year swamped Ellis Island and resulted in great distress to the immigrants themselves.
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