Mr. President. with the general purposes of this seamens bill I am in full sympathy. Our effort to check immigration into the United States began with a temporary quota law back in 1921. which gave very liberal quotas. calculated on a wholly artificial basis. It nevertheless did serve to keep out some immigrants who desired to flock to the United States. How many were kept out. I hesitate to guess. but I should suppose that each year not less than 100.000 persons who wanted to come to the United States during the three years that act was in effect were restrained from coming by the temporary quota law of 1921. In 1924 we passed our basic immigration law. and its effects. speaking by and large. have been wholly good. It is estimated that we have perhaps seven or eight millions of persons unemployed in the United States today. Perhaps the number is less than that. perhaps it is more.
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