I have no objection to the printing of the Johnson bill. as suggested by the Senator from Maine. at the conclusion of my remarks. To return to the point which I was discussing. I cited the Johnson bill as an instance of a more liberal quota proposal with respect to the countries of the Western Hemisphere such as is recommended by the Secretary of Labor in his last annual report. where he gives reasons why it would not be a discrimination against the remainder of the world to grant larger quotas to immigrants from the countries of the Western Hemisphere which are now on a nonquota basis. That might be accomplished. for example. by providing that the 150.000 immigrants who may come into the United States under the nationalorigins clause of the immigration act shall be apportioned among those countries to which that law now applies. Another total number might be fixed for the Western Hemisphere. to be divided among the countries on a percentage basis. I am not saying just how such a plan should be carried out. but evidently the Secretary of Labor had in mind a different and a preferential treatment of the countries on this hemisphere than those of the remainder of the world.
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