Speech #720135878

From and after the date of such proclamation the government of the Philippine Islands shall continue as provided by the laws in effect at the date when such proclamation may be issued except as they may thereafter be duly altered or repealed. The President of the United States shall. as soon after the proclamation as may be practicable. report the facts to Congress for such action as it may then see fit to take. SEc. 8. (a) Effective 60 days after the enactment of this act(1) For the purposes of the immigration act of 1917. the immigration act of 1924 (except sec. 13 (c)). this section. and all other laws of the United States relating to the immigration. exclusion. or expulsion of aliens. citizens of the Philippine Islands who are not citizens of the United States shall be considered as if they were aliens. For such purposes th& Philippine Islands shall be considered as a foreign country and shall have for each fiscal year a quota of 100. This paragraph shall not apply to a person coming or seeking to come to the Territory of Hawaii who does not apply for and secure an immigration or passport visa. (2) Citizens of the Philippine Islands who are not citizens of the United States shall not be admitted to the continental United States from the Territory of Hawaii (whether entering such Territory before or after the effective date of this section) unless they belong to a class declared to be nonimmigrants by section 3 of the immigration act of 1924 or to a class declared to be nonquota immigrants under the provisions of section 4 of such act other than subdivision (c) thereof. or unless they were admitted to such Territory under an immigration visa. The Secretary of Labor shall by regulations provide a method for such exclusion and for the admission of such excepted classes. (3) Any Foreign Service officer may be assigned to duty in the Philippine Islands. under a commission as a consular officer. for such period as may be necessary and under such regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe. during which assignment such Officer shall be considered as stationed in a foreign country. but his powers and duties shall be confined to the performance of such of the official acts and notarial and other services which such officer might properly perform in respect of the administration of the immigration laws if assigned to a foreign country as a consular officer as may be authorized by the Secretary of State. (b) The provisions of this section are in addition to the provisions of the immigration laws now in force. and shall be enforced as a part of such laws. and all the penal or other provisions of such laws not inapplicable shall apply to and be enforced in connection with the provisions of this section. An alien. although admissible under the provisions of this section. shall not be admitted to the United States if he is excluded by any provision of the immigration laws other than this section. and an alien. although admissible under the provisions of the immigration laws other than this section. shall not be admitted to the United States if he is excluded by any provision of this section. (c) Terms defined in the immigration act of 1924 shall. when used in this section. have the meaning assigned to such terms in that act. SEc. 9. Not later than six months after receipt by the President of the United States of the acceptance. as provided in section 21 of this act. of the provisions of this act the President shall issue a proclamation announcing such acceptance. and for a period of five years from and after the 1st of January next following the date of such proclamation trade relations between the United States and the Philippine Islands shall be regulated as now provided by law. subject to the following exceptions: (a) There shall be levied. collected. and paid on all refined sugars in excess of 50.000 long tons. and on unrefined sugars in excess of 800.000 long tons. coming into the United States from the Philippine Islands in any calendar year. the same rates of duty which are required by the laws of the United States to be levied. collected. and paid upon like articles imported from foreign countries. (b) There shall be levied. collected. and paid on all coconut oil coming into the United States from the Philippine Islands in any calendar year in excess of 200.000 long tons the same rates of gluty which are required by the laws of the United States to be levied. collected. and paid upon like articles imported from foreign countries. (c) There shall be levied. collected. and paid on all yarn. twine. cord. cordage. rope. and cable. tarred or untarred. wholly or in chief value of manila hemp (abaca) or other hard fibers coming into the United States from the Philippine Islands in any calendar year in excess of a collective total of 6.000.000 pounds of all such articles hereinbefore enumerated. the same rates of duty which are required by the laws of the United States to be levied. collected. and paid upon like articles imported from foreign countries. (d) In the event that in any year the limit in the case of any article which may be exported to the United States free of duty shall be reached by the Philippine Islands. the amount or quantity of such articles produced or manufactured in the Phjlippine Islands thereafter that may be so exported to the United States free of duty shall be allocated. under export permits issued by the government of the Philippine Islands. to the producers or manufacturers of such articles proportionately on the basis of -their exportation to the United States In the preceding year. except that in the case of unrefined sugar the amount thereof to be exported annually to the United States free of duty shall be allocated to the sugarproducing mills of the islands proportionately on the basis of their production in the preceding year. and the amount of sugar which may be exported from each mill shall be allocated between the mill and the planters on the basis of the proportion of sugar received by the planters and the mill from the planters cane. as provided in their milling contract.