We have endeavored for the sake of peace on the American continent. and for the sake of our commerce with those countries. to say to our friends down there that we did not regard them as being on the same basis as Europeans. We have endeavored to show them that. since they have copied our Constitution. since they have copied our institutions. since they are striving toward the same objects politically and governmentally that we are. we wish to put them on a different basis. When the immigration act was before Congress in 1924 the late Senator Willis. of Ohio. offered an amendment which he described in these words: This amendment. In effect. simply provides that the same rule which is applied to the remainder of the world shall be applied to the American continent. When that amendment was voted upon 33 Senators now sitting in the Senate voted against it: Messrs.
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