Yes. These are the two relief provisions in the bill. The gentleman from North Carolina who has preceded me has some reason to object. because within the last few yearsand I want you gentlemen to know thisthey did have a very satisfactory and beneficial experience with immigrants. They secured about 200 or 300 immigrants. who have produced on an acre of land never before cultivated from $300 up to $1.000 worth of products. flowers. bulbs. and other things. They realize that the natives can not and will not cultivate the lands to such advantage. and they feel that if they could get more such agriculturists they in North Carolina would be greatly benefited. I concede this. but the restrictionists were afraid if they permitted some of these farmers to come in. their children and their wives would come later on as well. and therefore they feel that we should put into this bill a provision so that the preferential status should be given wives and.children of declarants instead of to the agriculturists. and thereby reduce the number of new immigrants under the quota and permit the quota to be used up with relatives so as to reduce the number that may come outside of the quota in the future. Personally. as I have said. you who are restrictionists ought to vote for this bill because it is. indeed. an additional restriction. but I. who believe in fair and humane legislation. am for the bill because it does in a small measure reunite the families. namely. the children of American citizens.
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Natives cannot/will not cultivate the lands to such advantage.