Speech #820245024

Lawrence seaway and waterpower project for 30 years. when it came up in the Senate a few days ago I did not feel that we should demand that the Senate support our position merely because we had been working on it for 30 years. The other claim is that the bill gives recognition to Orientals. It is true that there has been some recognition accorded them. but it is very niggardly recognition. for under the bill only 100 persons can come into the United States each year from China or India or the Philippines. and the entire immigration from that great expanse called the AsiaticPacific triangle is limited to an aggregate of 2.000 a year. in spite of the fact that that triangle is populated by more than a billion persons. If that is recognition. if that is a concession. then I certainly do not agree with it. It seems to me it is an insult to say that not more than 100 persons from the Philippine Islands can come to the United States.