Chairman and members of the committee. I desire your attention a few minutes while I call attention to Report No. 2710. which report accompanies House Joint Resolution 500. This is a joint resolution from the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization proposing to suspend 90 per cent of the quota immigration for a period of two years. and to place numerical limitations on the straightout immigration that may come to the United States for permanent domicile for the two years. This proposal is the fourth measure put forth by the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization during the Seventyfirst Congress in an effort to find a way to find a bill that could pass for restriction to meet the present emergency. The fourth bill. the one I am now discussing. eliminates all reference to any effort to control the migration of the people of the Philippines. which our committee found was one of the stumbling blocks to consideration. We found that a large membership on both sides preferred to have that subject divided. I note the smile of approval of my good friends. the commissioners from the Philippines. and I may say to them here and now that there is no doubt in my mind that the mere fact that the House committee has stricken the Philippine exclusion paragraph from the bill will do as much as any other one thing to keep the subject alive. and I presume the gentlemen from the Philippines will be gratified because the immigration question will be the entering wedge that will cause consideration in both branches of the question of the independence of the Philippine people.
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