It was one that has occupied much of the time of your committee. This committee brought out a bill last year. somewhat similar. which we could not pass through the Senate owing to a lastminute filibuster. The bill now before you is a substitute for a Senate bill. and is a little more generous than the Senate .bill. -Our hope is that that body will see the necessity for the .relief. will see that this measure does not weaken but protects the quota law. Full consideration has been given to this bill. and I am sure that if the roll were called. this bill would pass 30 to 1 in the House. The question of admission of certain relatives has stood in the way of important and necessary bills that must be made into workable law in a short time. and among them are the following: . Regulation and restriction on the Mexican border and for this hemisphere. Public opinion and conditions in the Southwest are forcing this bill to the front very fast. A rewriting of the naturalization laws. doing away with the present style of declaration of intent which is now being used and mlisunderstood by surreptitious newcomers who are paying lawyers and others to get it for them on the ground it will give them citizenship which they never can get. A set of the laws defining citizenship. We are getting a lot of lip service here among socalled citizens. fascists. and others that will not do at all.
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