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Show RESTRICTION BILL " PASSEDBY SENATE DRASTIC MEASURE AGAINST IM. MIGRATION WILL REDUCE ALIEN INFIOWS. It Is Estimated That Partial Closing of Gates to Foreigners Will Limit Immigration to 353,- 000 During Next Year Washington. A drastic mensuro against Immigration during tho next jenr wns adopted on February 10, by tho senate, which by 01 to 2 passed the Dillingham Immigration hill after adding hmendments to Increase Its restrictive re-strictive feature. The bill, It Is estimated, esti-mated, would limit Immigrants during The next twelve months to slightly over 355,000. Tho bill wns adopted as n substitute substi-tute for the Johnson bill, passed by tho house. Tho latter would bar for n your all immigrants, exuept relatives rela-tives of nllcns now here. Tho bills' go to conference for ndjustment. Advocates of tho Dillingham substitute substi-tute declared that it would keep out moro Immigrants than tho Johnson measure. Doth bills would go Into effect within with-in two month, with tho Dillingham measure cffectlvo for fifteen and tho Johnson bill for fourteen months. It took tho sennto less than flvo hdurs to dispose of tho Immigration legislation. Tho two senntors opposing oppos-ing passage were France, Republican, Maryland, and Reed, Democrat, Missouri. Mis-souri. Rcfora passing tiho substitute, tho senate defeated, 43 to 10, a motion to ndopt tho Johnson bill. Forty per cent less Immigrants would be admitted under tho Dillingham Dilling-ham bill than ns reported by tho son-ato son-ato Immigration committee. This wns accomplished by reducing tho basis ot Immigration from G to 3 per cent of the number of aliens here (ccordlng to the 1010 census. Tho amendment was offcrci) by Scnntor Harrison, Democrat, Demo-crat, Mississippi, w'o led tho fight to make the legislation moro drastic. Under another amendment, wives and children of aliens who have applied ap-plied for citizenship would bo given preference. Another nmendment struck out a clnuso authorizing nil-mission nil-mission when deemed Justifiable us n "mensuro of liumnnltv." |