The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1921-03-03
CONGRESS TO PASS BILL EITHER
DURING THIS SESSION
OR The NEXT.
PERCENTAGE PLAN FAVORED
Senate Committee Recommends teois-
istion That Probably viii Prove to
Be More Drastic Than the johnson
House Bill.
BY EDWARD 8. CLARK.

tlon IL to be damned temporarily at
least. The dGmming will he accom-
plshcd, no matter which bill, that Of
the house or that of the senate, con
giess finally shall pass.
II Is possible, Of course, that the
legislation may not get on to the stat
ute books as the result Of action by
the present congress, but II is known
that II failure shnll meet the attempt
10 pass the measure and TO have II
signed 10y the President before March
4, II will be taken up again and
pressed for passage as soon as the
next congress assemblies In extraor-
binary session.
An act OF the house OF representa-
lives known as the johnson bill con
tained n provision TO stop all immi-
grafton for one year. When the bill
reached the senate opposition TO the
total stoppnge provision developed
Instantly. The senate committee on
immigration refused TO sanction com
plete temporary prohibition OF I'm
migrants by vote Of five to four, and
then the committee proceeded TO adopt
nm amendment which II IN said makes
the measure even more drastic than
IL would be with the Johnson provision
Incorporated.
The senate committee proposes TO
put per cent limit on incoming
aliens. This means that immigrants
from any country shall be admitted
only To the number o. 8 per cent OF the
total Of the number OF aliens now In
the United States from the particular
country affected.
Percentage Plan Has Good Chance.
For a long time Senator Dillingham;
Of Vermont has been the advocate of
this percentage Limitation. He has
held that under his plan no nation
could complain that another nation
was being favored, and that with the
per cent limit immigration would be
80 checked that the Americanizatior
OF the lncomers would be an easier
| process. For long time the senate
has been thinking on this percentage
Limitation.
Of course IL may be that the senat,
friends Of the Johnson absolute pro
hibltion clause will be able In opeI
senate 10 reject the o per cent limi
provision and secure the adoption ot
the house proposal, but today II looks
as II the percentage plan will be &c
cepted by the senate and that tn,
house will agree thereto.
There has been much bitterness ovel
this immigration legislation. IL ha,
senate did not desire absolute and i'm
mediate prohibition OF immigration be
cause the great corporations Of the
country had declared that under III,
| provisions Of such measure theJ
would not be able TO get labor to carr,
on their activities.
To Offset this charge the senate op
ponents of the house provision for cut
ting of all Immigration temperate,
declared that the per cent Limitation
would 20 farther In keeping out I'm
migrants than the johnson provision
|
for Its basis the fact that the PEE
cent limitation concerns itself Will
ali prospective immigrants, while un
der the Johnson measure there wer,
provisions which would admit som,
Of the dependents and members o
the families OF immigrants now In thu
country.
Country Demands Restriction.
IL became apparent In the senat,
that because OF the great problems O
Amerlcanlzation, and because of thing
that happened among our alien popula
tlon during the time we were at wal
the country was In a mood TO deman,
drastic legislation II seems possible
that II the senate had not come TO
realizing sense of this condition
would have refused TO sanction evel
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