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The gentleman suggested that it represented a compromise in lieu of what we were discussing as the MacGregor amendment. May I say to my chairman that these particular sections concerning control of Western Hemisphere immigration went into the bill in successive amendments. and in no sense of the word was the cited provision considered to have been a compromise. It was the third step of a fourstep approach to the problem of control of Western Hemisphere immigration. May I say that the gentleman is eminently correct with respect to these provisions and the manner in which he has set them forth. but in no sense are these controls which are in the bill with respect to Western Hemisphere immigration a compromise or substitute. in any sense of the word. for the amendment the gentleman from Minnesota is suggesting.