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Show RESTRICTION BILL PASSEDBYSENATE DRASTIC MEASURE AGAINST IMMIGRATION IM-MIGRATION WILL REDUCE ALIEN INFLOWS. It is Estimated That Partial Closing of Gates to Foreigners Will Limit Immigration to 355,-000 355,-000 During Next Year. Washington. A drastic measure against immigration during the next year was adopted on February 1!) by the senate, which by CI to 12 passed the Dillingham immigration bill after adding amendments to increase its restrictive re-strictive features. The bill, it is estimated, esti-mated, would limit immigrants during the next twelve months to .slightly over o.Vi.OOO. The bill was adopted as n substitute substi-tute for the .Johnson bill, passed by the house. - The latter would bar for a yeir all imm'graiits. except, relatives rela-tives of aliens now here. The bills go to conference for adjustment. Advocates of tllie Dillingham substitute substi-tute declared that it would keep out more immigrants than the Johnson measure. 1'oth bills would go into effect within with-in two months, with the Dillingham measure effective for fifteen and the Johnson bill for fourteen months. It took the senate less than five hours to dispose of the immigration legislation. The two senators opposing oppos-ing passage were France, "Republican, Maryland, and Reed, Democrat, Missouri. Mis-souri. Kef ore passing Che substitute, the senate defeated, 43 to 19, a motion to adopt the Johnson bill. Forty per cent less immigrants would be admitted under the Dillingham Dilling-ham bill than as reported by the senate sen-ate immigration committee. This was accomplished by reducing the basis of immigration from 5 to 3 per cent of the number of aliens here :ecording to the 1910 census. The amendment was offered by Senator Harrison, Democrat, Demo-crat, Mississippi, who led the fight to make t'h.e legislation more drastic. Under another amendment, wives and children of aliens who have applied ap-plied for citizenship would be given preference. Another amendment struck out a clause authorizing admissions ad-missions when deemed justifiable as a "measure of humanity." |