Mr. President. I know that the Senate does not care to launch upon the practice of debating bills that have only been introduced and have not yet even reached their appropriate committees. but I desire to say a word in explanation of a joint resolution which I introduced this morning bearing on the question of immigration. No one can have a panacea for unemployment and commercial and industrial depression. and I do not imagine for a moment that any treatment we may adopt of the immigration question will be such a panacea. It is obvious. however. that to some extent a reduction of the number of newcomers into the United States who come here for the purpose of seeking employment will at the moment tend to diminish the competition for the few jobs that are available. It seems that in a time like the present it is highly unwise from the national standpoint to admit new immigration of persons coming here to seek employment. For that reason I have introduced this morning a joint resolution which. if passed and signed by the President. would have the effect of suspending for a period of two years all immigration of persons of that sort. In order to make clear just what the proposal is. I should like to explain that it would apply as well to countries of this hemisphere as to countries of Europe. It would stop immigration impartially from all countries outside the United States.
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