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I may cite a dispatch just received from the ambassador to Mexico relative to an editorial in the Mexico City Excelsior of February 16. 1928. Tle Excelsior is one of the" leading dailies in Mexico and is fairly representative of the conservative semliilent in that country. The editorial comments bitterly on the mcasures proposed in the United States to prevent further Mexican immigration to California and assails the United States generally for this attitude toward the Mexican laborer. I.am quite sure that Mexico would deeply resent being singled out. and I am quite sure that all South America and Central America would resent tile application of the quota. I have previously referred to the statement made by Hon.