We are dealing with a vital problem. big with important issues. It is too large to be made a plaything. The action which you will take today proves beyond dispute either that Congress. which passed the immigration act of 1924. and the President. who after consultation with his advisers approved it. were altogether guilty of the clumsy blundering which characterizes incompetency or that some unworthy consideration is now controlling them. The nationalorigins provisions of the 1924 immigration act. which you are again postponing. were deliberately written into a big piece of legislation. The original bill as reported by your House committee did not contain them. but they were proposed as an amendment by a scholarly and able Member of the House. the late Mr. Rogers. of Massachusetts. who argued them ably and fairly. The House adhered to the committee bill then before it. and the bill passed without these provisions. It then went to the Senate. where the bill was supported and amended by able and ripe students of the immigration problem comnposing the Senate committee an(d membership. They added these nationalorigins provisions. The bill then went to conference.
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