Session #81 · 1949–51

Speech #810324991

In other words. by accepting this substitute. the Senate will get rid of all the provisions of S. 4037. the McCarran bill. which are not included in the substitute. The provisions which the Senate could get rid of in this way include all the provisions which were incorporated from S. 2311. the MundtFerguson bill. prohibiting certain overt acts designed to destroy our democratic institutions. and requiring the registration of Communist organizations so as to bring them out into the open. Adoption of the substitute would also eliminate from the bill the provisions which were incorporated from S. 1832. which would strengthen our immigration laws so as to provide for the exclusion and expulsion of subversives. At that point let me remind the Senate that S. 1832 has already passed this body unanimously. Adoption of the Kilgore substitute would also eliminate from the bill those several provisions of S. 4037 which are designed to preclude naturalization of subversives. Finally. adoption of the Kilgore substitute would eliminate from the bill those provisions of S. 4037 which were designed to strengthen the administration of the law by creating in the Department of State a Bureau of Passports and Visas with authority to maintain liaison with the security agencies of this Government. Title I of the Kilgore concentrationcamp substitute would retain only two of the principal provisions of S. 4037. and would retain these provisions in watereddown form. The first provision of S. 4037 which is incorporated in title I of the concentrationcamp substitute are those changes in the espionage laws which were incorporated in S. 4037 from the bill S. 595. which has been on the Senate Calendar for more than 18 months.
Keywords matched
naturalization immigration Visas

Classification

Target group
None Specific
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural Security threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
PATRICK MCCARRAN
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
NV
Gender
M
Date
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Speech ID
810324991
Paragraph
#0
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