New-York tribune., 1921-02-16
;P.(,. Alien Bill
Sent to Senate
BvCorl1inittee
p.nor, Argues That Measure
win Check Type Which
s,avs in Cities and Favor
Class Going TO Farms
Points to Rural Needs
r,rb Placed ON Southern Eu-
rope, Which for Most Part
Sends Single Men to u. S.
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rAsHINGToN, Feb. 15.--Expressing
=. opinion that no emergency exists
.rssent which warrants & general
..a;bition Of European immigration,
Senate Committee on immigration
.sd.v reported the modified Dilling-
,.m bill as temporary measure. At
same time the committee reported
a.ysely on the Johnson bill, which
..,ss the House several weeks ago.
rAs committee holds that lesser
.n.reency is presented in the threat
.r.s migration of large numbers from
..,,.rn and southern Europe; that this
,-nieration consists largely of single
-. and throngs into the cities and
r,nufacturing centers; that this immi-
.-..;on should be restricted and immi-
ration from northern and western
yn,ope allowed to proceed along nor
nal lines; that the time has come for
,ore attention to selection and distri-
sntion of immigrants, and that the
-ssd Of labor in the agricultural sec
sons must be taken into account.
Senator Dillingham;, of Vermont,
,,pkipg Republican member of the
,ommittes, made the report. The bill
,rovides for limitation of immigration
an percentage plan. The limit fixed
,.5per cent of the number of natives
A. apv country resident in the United
S,stss in 1910. No more than per
,.pt Of such number is to be admitted
s the course Of fiscal year. The bill
!, supposed to go into effect April /
md remain in effect FOR fifteen months,
until June 80, 1922.
Passage This Session Unlikely
Az only two weeks are left Of this
,,ssion and the Senate measure differs
yadcally from the Johnson bill, there
is no serious expectation that legisla-
tiOn will be enacted before the present
Congress ends.
While it opposes general prohibition
of immigration, the committee says, an
emergency will arise in the near fu-
ture (which must be met by marked
restriction in immigration until the
changes wrought by the war, both in
the United States and in European na-
tons. can be deliberately ascertained
and considered, and system of legis-
lation adapted to such changed condt-
tons be framed to meet the exigency.
@That the general movement Of I'm
migration toward the United States ID
increasing is evidenced by the fact thai
during the first six months of the pres
pnt fiscal year there were admitted
al e01 immigrants" says the report
sEyidsnce indicates that the general
desire among the people of many ns~
tons Of Europe TO emigratet to the
United States has been quickened as @
result Of the war.
"while it is not probable that an
undue number will seek admittancs
during the present existing depression
IN our manufacturing industries, it is
probable that when such industrial &C.
tiyities revive the number will increase
accordingly, and it is possible that IL
will equal the immigration during the
last years preceding the World War
when the average number admitted
1910-14) WAS more than 100000 an
nasly.
Change in immigration Source
THE immigration of the present
year has very largely come from south
an and eastern Europe, and, in the
opinion Of the committee. the largest
innigration of the immediate future
ssogill come from that section.
'lais opinion is borne out by the
fact that during the eighteen years
l@tlsl4 we received of the old immi-
grafton only 2,838,54S, while during the
sane period we received of the new i'm
migration 10,570,576. It was the new
immigration coming in unprecedented
numbers which created our pre-war
problem, and, as already indicated, it ia
tie impending return of this movem ent
nNs pre-war status which, in the opin-
loa Of the committee, constitutes the
PRESENT emergency. Unlike the older
immigration, which distributed itself
% every part Of the country, entered
every branch Of activity and was, as q
rule, quickly and thoroughly assimi-
nted, the new immigration has con-
Asted largely Of single men. II has
gone directly to the cities and to the
nsnuiacturing centers and has re-