Speech #700171539

If the gentleman will put into effect the provisions of this bill on July 1. 1929. and stop right there. it will give at least four months start to the fathers and mothers who are now waiting and who want to apply for preferential visas. I want to state to the gentleman from Washington. who prides himself on his regularity. that the President of the United States in four or five successive messages to Congress recommended that we humanize the law so as to permit families to be united as soon as possible. and that Presidentelect Hoover. in his speech of acceptance. went on record as being in favor of amending the immigration law so ats to humanize it and permit fathers and mothers of citizens to come in. Now we find that you not only inject a new class to cut down the number of fathers and mothers. but you come in and destroy the advantage they should have by permitting the Secretary of Labor to determine ahead of the time the law goes into effect. Then you come in and pretend that you restrict immigration. while you really open the doors to a cheaper kind of foreign labor.