May I say to the gentleman that he is exactly right. I happened to be present at the time the President made the statement to which the gentleman has just referred. We on the Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization were trying desperately to formulate a fair. reasonable. honorable bill and to give some more leeway as it were to the new and pending legislation. because were it not for the fact there was a need to increase the number some little bit there would be no necessity at all for the present bill at this particular time due to the fact existing legislation provides for 205.000. just what the gentleman would seek to cut it back to by his amendment. So we had the President with this promise. and his pledge. representing our great Nation. on the one hand. and we with our consciences on the other. After many months of trying our best to get together on a compromise between the 400.000 and the 300.000. the 339.000 is the result of that compromise. and the only way in the world in which we can get any legislation is to compromise. give and take. live and let live.
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