said: " If the nationalorigins amendment of Senator REED to the Johnson Immigration Act is going to breed bad feeling in the United States among those of German birth and Scandinavian ancestry and result in friction at home. you may rest assured that it will not be put into effect." * * * This question should not be involved in party politics. When the 1924 Immigration act was ready to be reported by your committee. knowing that it would raise an acute issue and being exceedingly anxious to avoid its becoming an issue between the political parties. for the purpose of removing the temptation from any man to say to the foreignborn that the Republicans did this. I moved that the committee report accompanying that bill should not be signed by the chairman alone. but that all members of the committoe of both parties favoring the measure should attach their signatures to the report. The committee adopted the plan. and that was done. but. gentlemen. I believe that there Is now greater danger of the immigration
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