President. I do not expect to take. very much of tile time of the Senate. but it may be that I would not have been able to have discussed this matter in the five minutes allowed under the fiveminute rule. so I do not regret at all the motion to take up the bill. as I do not desire to impede its passage. The bill itself is an entirely meritorious one from my viewpoint. but I should like the attention of the Senate for just a few moments to the situation which arises as the result of the comparatively sudden enactment of the immigration law of 1924. The Senate will recollect that our first immigration restriction law was passed in 1921. Then. for the first time. we adopted a policy of immigration restriction. The provisions of the restriction law of 1922 were comparatively generous in that they admitted a goodly number of immigrants from the socalled quota countries. and the exemptions in that law were comparatively generous. My recollection is that- under that law there were admitted to this country a total of 750.000 persons per year from all the countries. That first law expired by limitation at the end of two years or thereabouts and was supplanted upon the statute books by the law of July 1. 1.924. which is the law now in operation.
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