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Mr. Speaker. I desire to address the House on legislation that appeared on the Consent Calendar on March 15 from the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. At the time certain Members asked that some of the bills go over. and some others were objected to. which automatically put them over until the next Consent Calendar. I wish to say that the bills reported by the committee should have been enacted and disposed of on that day as 90 percent or more of them were bills affecting our war activitids. They were bills that had nothing to do with immigration insofar as bringing in of new immigrants is concerned. It was an attempt to change the status of some peoplenow in the countryin most cases connected with our armed forces in some wayin order to bring about a better understanding and less confusion of the laws pertaining to persons who are not yet citizens of the United States. I have taken the trouble. for the benefit of the Members who made those objections. to analyze the bills and I shall incorporate them in the REcoRD and point out to the House how vital most of them were to our war efforts: MEMORANDUM BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE HousE