Speaker. I want to take this opportunity to commend and congratulate my colleague from Pennsylvania. Congressman WALTER. and members of his Subcommittee on Immigration for recommending to the House H.R. 10419 which passed yestrday. This bill would amend the act of September 2. 1958. which I supported at the time. by increasing from 1.500 to 2.000 the number of visas to be made available to the nations or citizens of Portugal. it would increase the limit on the number of visas to be made available to the nationals and citizens of the Netherlands who have been displaced in Indonesia. from 1 years annual quota to the total of the annual quota for 2 years. and it would change the closing date for issuance of visas under the act from June 30. 1960. to June 30. 1962. Mr. Speaker. these people of Portuguese descent were made homeless when the volcano of Pico Gorda erupted on the Island of Fayal in the Azores a few years ago and caused almost continuous earthquakes and destruction.
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