Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-13
IMMIGRATION BILL,
YEAR BAN, PASSED
BY HOUSE, 29341
Measure Is Sent to Senate,
Where Leaders Predict
Its Defeat.
TWO-YEAR PROVISION
FAILS BY 181 TO 165
Exemption of Brothers and Sisters
of Citizens Carried by Rising
Vote of 2O3 to 76.

The Johnson immigration bill, as
amended to prohibit all immigration
for period of one year, was passed
today by the House.
1t now goes to the Senate. where its
defeat is predicted by Senate leaders
The vote was 293 for the bill, Al
against. Six members voted pres
ent'
Last-minute attempts by House
the clause restricting immigration
for two years failed today. the House
approving by a vote of 1S1 to 165
the Mann amendment limiting the
barring of aliens to one year.
The Siegel amendment exempting
brothers and sisters of citizens was
carried by a rising vote of 203 to 76.
On rising vote previously taken
the House voted 5S for the one-year
restriction and 81 for the two-year re-
strictlon, originally proposed by the
bill. On roll call. however, the
amendment was carried.
JohnsOn's Statement.
Chairman Johnson of the immgra-
tion committee issued statement fol-
lowing the passage of his bill. which
read in part, as follows:
THE 1850 immigrants who arrived
Saturday on the White Star liner
Adriatic have been sent to Hoffman
lSland because of an outbreak of
typhus among them.
AT Gloucester. y. j., eleven aliens
have been taken from the steamship
Haverford and sent to the detention
station suffering with typhus.
10 I'D 10;
closing the doors of that republic to
immigrants. owing to the spread of a
mysterious disease known as malady
No. 9. with which tens of thousa nds
of Polish and Russian refugees to
Paris have suffered the past year.
French police say that thousands OF
these immigrants are crossing the
French borders daily, intending to go
to America despite the fact that they
have not obtained American vises to
their passports
in Paris they are sleeping as many
as twenty in a room.
scanatnavia. Guarantees.
II desire to call attention to the
fact that no aliens are coming afnr=,
lessly to the United States from Nor
way. Sweden and Denmark. Laws Of
these countries forbid. Those who
come to the United States from these
countries come with just such guar
antees as this bill provides.
In the meantime. while we are
splitting hairs over the method Of
suspension, the communist party Of
America has flooded the country with
the most vicious circulars it has vet
put out. IT calls for strAightout rev.
olutiop.
Record of Vote.
Those voting against the bill were:
Republicans-Britten Illinois: Bur-
dick, Rhode Island: Copley, Illinois:
Glynn,- Connecticut; Greene, Massa
chusetts: Hickey. Indiana; JUL. H.
linois; Kennedy. Rhode Island; Luce.
Massachusetts,; MaoCrate. New York:
Perlman. New York; Peters. Maine:
Smith. Illinois; Seigel New York:
Tilson. Connecticut; Tinkham. Massa-
chusetts; Ware, Pennsylvania; Wood,
Indiana.
Democrats Babka. Ohio: Bee
Texas; Carew. New York; Cleary, New
York: Coady. Maryiand: Cullen, New
York; Donovan. New York; Eagan,
New Jersey: Gailivan. Massachusetts:
Goldfogle, New York; Johnston, New
York; McAndrews, Illinois; McGlen-
non, New Jersey: Mead. New York.
Minahan. New Jersey; McKiniry. New
York: Mooney. Ohio; Pell, New
York; Phelan. Massa chusetts; Rainey.
Illinois: SABBATH. Illinois; Sullivan, New
York. and Tague, Massachusetts,.