No. These provisions. in our opinion. and In my opinion particularly. are for the purpose of making the restrictive immigration act of 1924 stronger. by making it more workable. and to prevent it being always subject to being nipped at on account of these small inequalities as to wives and husbands. The numbers are small. The next feature. Mr. Speaker. and the one that seems most to be misunderstood. is the socalled farmer provision. Gentlemen will remember that when the immigration act of 1924 was in conference. a distinguished and able Senator [Senator SIMMONS of North Carolina] insisted on a preference within the quota up to 50 per cent. to be divided equally between certain close relatives and farmers. the theory being that from the countries of north and western Europe if new immigrants were to come. a proportion of them should be of the farmer type. Now. we have saved that proposition. and properly so. and made it even more workable by providing in section 3 on pages 2 and 3 a sort of selfacting damper in the stovepipethat long pipe through which the immigrants must come. When an excess of men come ahead of wives and children. the damper closes until the wives and children--coming within the quotas---can catch up. Notice that this does not affect the north European countries. for there is no pressure from these countries.
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