Speech #710179591

I rise to speak against the anendment of the Senator from Maine . I do this for the reason that. in the first place. it places a quota upon Canada. Nobody on this floor or anywhere else has shown that there is any need or any demand for a quota on Canadian immigration. and. even if there were such a thing and were such a denand. this bill does not in any manner" meet that demand. The record shows that the average immigratio:i from Canada amounts to about 19.(..u0. This bill allows 67.000. more than three times the average number that come into this country. so there is not any argument for the quota even on the part of those who might want to restrict immigration from Canada. What is the reason that Canada is to be included under a quota? The reason given is that we do not want to arouse any feeling on the part of South American countries by not putting a quota on Canada. We do not want to discriminate. we are told. and yet this bill is the rankest kind of discrimination. When we passed the immigration law in 1924 we provided that .the quota should apply to European countries and other parts of the world except the countries of North and South America. Nobody considered that that was discrimination. and we have had no complaint of that being discrimination. The conmittee in reporting omt tie Harris bill simply extended the application of the same quota to the countries of the Americas south of the United States. leaving the country of Canada to the north not included under the quota.