I voted in favor of extending the life of the Federal Radio Commission. the appropriation of $75.000.000 to assist States in road building. and the Rogers Act authorizing $15.000.000 for new hospital facilities. I likewise voted for the railroad consolidation legislation and the compromise naval construction act. both of which bills. having failed of passage during this session. will retain their status until the termination of the Seventieth Congress. I voted to postpone the application of the national origins clause to the emigration law of 1924. believing that this national origins clause would write into legislation a principle founded on prejudice and would unjustly discriminate against certain people and certain nations. I voted for the anendmnent of the present law which made it easier for families and relatives to be united. Under this amendment. preference is given within the quota limitations to the fathers. mothers. and husbands of American citizens 21 years or more of age. and to families of agricultural laborers. Fifty per cent of the quota is reserved for the above. and the remainder of the quota is to be allotted whenever possible to the unmarried children under 21 years of age and to the wives of unnaturalized emigrants. Further. It was my privilege to strenuously oppose every dry movement and to consistently vote against every dry measure presented to this Congress.
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