Mr. President. in proposing to repeal the nationalorigins clause of the immigration act I approach the subject with some misgivings as to my own ability to present it clearly and concisely. and in a manner that will be certainly understood. without the presence here of the one Member of this body who has made himself so close a student of the question of national origins. I have reference to the senior Senator from Minnesota . who has been absent from the Senate for some weeks owing to a serious illness on his own part. So. as I say. I approach the task with -some misgivings. and yet so deep Is my conviction that national origins as a basis of immigration quotas is unfair and inaccurate that I have no Ilesitancy in devoting myself to this cause as best I can. However. in presenting this argument I think. in all fairness. I should. first of all. present the argument in some manner as it would be presented were the Senator from Minnesota present. In the hearings conducted by the Senate Committee on Immigration last February. though he was not able to be present at the committee hearings. the Senator from Minnesota did submit a statement which was incorporated in and made a part of the record of those hearings. and I desire to read his statement incorporated in the record at that time:
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