Mr. Speaker and gentlemen. you have heard the preliminary statements by the two members of the Rules Committee as to the necessity for this postponenment. The report from the committee does not go into the merits of the nationalorigins provision of the 1924 immigration act. and I do not intend to discuss the merits of that provision today. To do so would take more time than I have at my disposal. In the report on tle bill we quote in full a brief debate in the Senate which siows beyond a doubt. on the statement of the chairman of the Immigration Committee of the Senate that that committee could not come to an agreement as to a resolution for repealing it and that the best that body could do was to postpone it. which was done unanimously. Today. at the request of the House committee. I am asking the House to pass this Senate resolution. The time. of course. will come when the nationalorigins provision will be before this Congress on its merits. and before that time. I assume. the Immigration Committee of the House and a similar committee in the other body will have gone further into the matter through hearings.
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