Show bill to prevent excessive immigration HMAN of tile the C immigration committee has filed a report on oil the proposed immigration measure signed by 14 34 committee members dissenting views will be presented by three other members pointing out that the present 3 per cent luw law based on the 1910 census expires juno june 80 next the report declared there was immediate and urgent need for enactment of 0 immigration legislation the committee Is advised the report continued that the alie number of allena aliens desiring to enter tile the united states Is very large it Is reasonable to assume that despite unfavorable exchange rates high steamship tariffs barins tar ins and other untoward factors an immigration of 0 between and would have entered the united states during each of the lost last two years if f tile the 3 per cent law had biad not barred tho way if tile the 3 pur per cent law la Is permitted to expire and no other legislation Is enacted the movement to our shores of the largest of peoples in the history of the world may bo be expected to begin july 1 1024 the exclusion causion clauses of act of february 5 3 1917 will be powerless to stay the tide such a situation should not be permitted to arise the country demands the restriction of immigration the public demand Is not only for restriction tion but for more and more effective restriction restrIct lon than jhun that imposed at present provisions of the John johnson sofi bill were summed up in the report as follows follow st preserves the basic immigration law of 1017 1917 retains the principle of numerical limitation as inaugurated in tho the act of slay may 19 1921 changes the quota base from the census of 1010 to the census of 1800 reduces the percentage from 3 to 2 plus a small baso base quota for each country counts certificates not persons provides for preliminary examination overseas exempts wife children cli under im der eighteen and parent over ove i fifty five of american citizen reduces ret classes of exempted aliens places burden of proof on alien rather than on the united states meets meeta the situation with reference to admission of persons ineligible to citizenship carries numerous sections to lesson lessen hardships of immigrants tightens the bars against immigration of japanese and other orientals Orient als |