The committee has repeatedly said that this bill places the interchange on a reciprocal basis. but if you will read the amendment offered by the committee. you will see that this is not true. To the contrary. the bill is. at most. only an expression of hope that the Department may keep it on a reciprocal basis. and there is nothing mandatory at all about it. clearly leaving it up to the discretion of the Department as to how many of these foreigners come in under this bill. We have men in many of our departments. and the State Department is not free from them. who would not be averse to breaking down our immigration bars and letting in great throngs of people from Europe and I do not want to give them that discretion. If you will vote to strike out of the committee amendment this wide discretion as I propose in my amendment and then if you will follow that up by making it mandatory. as I shall propose in my next amendment. then we will at least know what is going to happen under this section. What is wrong about putting this on a reciprocal basis?
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