Show I I YEAR EXTENSION ON IMMIGRATION House Committee Says People People Peo pie Favor Move Move- W WASHINGTON Feb 18 Advocating eating cating the extension for another year yea r of the 3 per cent restrictive Immigration Immigration Immigration gration law the house Immigration n committee In a report laid before th the e house today declared the people o othe otI of ot t the United States were demanding g continuance of the act after otter Its expiration expIration expiration ration June 30 or something more restrictive re re- restrictive re- re This view however was as challenged challenge d by two members of the committee Representatives Siegel Rep of Ne New Nei NewYork NewYork York and Sabbath Dem of Illinois who contended that the quota law i Is s I Inhuman and contrary to the highest American ideals Representative Box Dem Dent of Texas called the bill a makeshift The report of the majority prepared prepared prepared pre pre- pared by Chairman Johnson declared declare d that many of the mishaps attendant t upon the Institution of the 3 per cen cent law would not occur during its ex ex- ex t tension The law is now functioning smoothly causing a a. minimum of hardships th the report stated The committee called attention to other countries enacting g strong sharp restrictive Immigration acts made necessary by the fact mos most of central Europe all of Asia Minor 1 and much of Russia are on the movas move e as a result of the distress and collapse col col- lapse following the great war |