Members of that 5050 audience who heard the debate still argue over who was the winner. but Johnson continued to win his elections and the Wobblies continued to go on strike. Later. during World War I. Johnson was commissioned a captain in the United States chemical warfare service and was assigned to Camp Humphreys. Va. In 1925. as chairman of the House Immigration and Naturalization Committee. he steered through Congress his famous bill which restricted immigration to 2 percent of the foreign born of each nation here in 1890. Passage of the bill made Japanese exclusion a Federal policy. Earlier. in 1920.
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