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I shall make only a brief statement about the provisions of the bill before the Senate. Senators have made up their minds what they will do. and I see no necessity for extended debate on the matter. I remember the late Senator Lodge stated to me that the most important measure passed during the 30 years he was in public life was the immigration bill of 1924. I did not agree with the Senator on many other questions. but I did on this. In that bill we omitted to put under the quota Mexico and the other Central American and South American States and Canada. but this was done over my protest.