| Show restriction BILL PASSED CT y SENATE TE DRASTIC MEASURE AGAINST immigration WILL REDUCE ALIEN INFLOWS it Is estimated that partial closing of gates to foreigners will limit immigration to during next year NN ashington A drastic measure against immigration during the nex next ear tear was adopted on february lebr uary 19 b by the senate which by gl 01 to 2 passed the dillingham immigration bill lif fitter ter addla adding ng amendments to increase its restrictive strict ive fe iturea the bill it Is estl mated would limit immigrants during the next twelve months to slightly over 0 the bill was nas adopted as a substitute astl for the johnson bill passed by the house the latter would bar a it year all immigrants except rela thes alv es of aliens now liere here the bills go to conference for adjustment Ado advocates cates of the dillingham substitute declared that it would keep out more immigrants than the johnson measure both bills would go into effect with in two months with the dillingham measure effective for fifteen and the johnson bill for fourteen months it took tool the senate lesy than five hours to dispose of the immigration lego legislation lation the two senators opposing passage were france republican maryland and aud reed democrat I 1 mis before passing the substitute the senate defeated 43 to 19 a motion tu adopt the johnson bill forty per cent less immigrants 15 would oil id be admitted under the dillingham bill than as reported by the the sen senate immigration committee this was accompli accomplished acied by reducing the basis of immigration from 5 to 3 per cent of the number of aliens here according to the 1910 census the amendment was offered li senator harrison democrat mississippi who led the fight to make wake the legislation more mord drastic ander another amendment w wives and children of aliens who hive ap piled for citizenship would be glen ghen preference another amendment struck out a clause authorizing ad missions when deemed justifiable as a measure of humanity I 1 |
