Mr. President. the effect of my amendment will be to place Canada upon an immigration quota. Yesterday the Senate voted upon the substitution for the Harris bill of the Johnson bill. reported to the House of Representatives in the form of an amendment offered by the Senator from Maine . That bill was a somewhat complicated measure. It may be that Senators in voting upon the Gould amendment had in mind other reasons than the sole question of determining whether or not Canada shall receive the same treatment as other countries of the Western Hemisphere with respect to the control and restriction of immigration. The amendment I have offered is in complete accord with the bill introduced in the House of Representatives by Congressman Box. of Texas. and as originally introduced in the Senate by the Senator from Georgia . which repealed. all of the section granting exemption from the quota provisions of the immigration law to the countries of the Western Hemisphere I am offering this amendment. Mr. President. to carry out the intent of a memorial adopted on January 31. 1929. by the Arizona State Senate. which was iead in its entirety into the RECORD a few days ago by the Senator from Alabama [Mr. �HErLIN]. It is therefore not necessary for me to read the preamble of the memorial. but only the concluding resolve. which is: Resolved. That the Senate of the Ninth State Legislature of the State of Arizona favors the maintenance of the basic provisions of the immigration act of 1924. and urges upon the Congress of the United States the enactment into law of House bill 6465. first session of the Seventieth Congress. commonly known as the Box bill. making the quota provisions thereof applicable to Mexico. Cuba. Canada. and the countries of continental United States and adjacent islands.
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