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Mr. President. I take pleasure in calling to the attention of this honorable body page 851 of the same report in reference to the KerrCoolidge bill. where it is stated: Because the Kerr bill contained provisions which. in the opinion of the officers of the American Federation of Labor. weakened the immigration laws already enacted through the efforts of the American Federation of Labor. it was opposed in the form and character in which it was presented. The American Federation of Labor deserves to be commended for preventing the enactment of the Kerr bill. as proposed. into law and for zealously guarding the immigration statutes which this bill sought to modify. A subcommittee of the executive council conferred with the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization. who drafted this measure. and proposed amendment which if accepted would serve as a remedy for the features of the act which were highly objectionable. It is the unalterable purpose of the American Federation of Labor to oppose the enactment of this measure until it Is amended and made acceptable to the representatives of labor. Mr.