President. the pending amendment. as just indicated. is the amendment offered by the able senior Senator from Pennsylvania . who Is unavoidably absent today. I think the position of the senior Senator from Pennsylvania should be briefly restated before a vote is taken. Certainly no one in this Chamber could remotely suspect the senior Senator from Pennsylvania of any interest inimical to the most rigid. drastic immigration limitation that can be applied. If there is one man more than another who has stood upon this floor for the protection of our American shores against immigration it is the senior Senator from Pennsylvania. Therefore it must be obvious to all of us that his proposal. this pending motion. does not arise out of any desire to break down any new limitations that can be applied successfully to immigration. That certainly is my own position also. We would join in drawing the immigration ban against every possible jeopardy from alien seamen. The senior Senator from Pennsylvania is seeking to reach a totally different objective. It is an objective which this pending bill does not presume. upon its face. to touch at all. yet which inherently this bill does affect most seriously. It is the life of the American merchant marine. Let us come back to the real question which is submitted to the Senate by my able friend the senior Senator from Pennsylvania in the pending proposal. to wit. that entirely aside from the question of immigration the pending measure is a thieat to a continuing merchant marine. particularly upon the Pacific Ocean. under the American flag. I emphatically associate myself with his position. He is not without credentials when he presents that point of view. and when I echo it I call the Senates attention to the fact that the United States Shipping Board. the official adviser of the United States Government in respect to matters of this technical character. has passed a resolution reading as follows: Resolved.
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