Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-03-04
CONGRESS TO PASS BILL EITHER
DURING THIS SESSION
OR THE NEXT.
PERCENTAGE PLAN FAVORED
Senate Committee Recommends Legis-
Iation That Probably Will Prove to
Be More Drastic Than the Johnson
House Bill.
Rx EpwARp 3. CLARK.

least The damming will be accom-
pl!shed, no matter which bill. that of
the house or that of the senate, con-
gress finally shall pass.
1t 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 it is known
that if failure shall meet the attempt
to pass the measure and to have 1t
signed by the President before March
4, it will be taken up again ana
pressed for passage as soon as the
next congress assemblies In extraor-
binary session.
An act of the house of representa-
tives known as the johnson bill con-
tanned a provision to stop all immi-
grafton for one year. When the bill
reached the senate opposition TO the
total stoppage provision developed
instantly. The senate committee on
immigration refused to sanction com
plete temporary prohibition OF inn
migrants by vote of five to four, and
then the committee proceeded to adopt
an amendment which ii Is said makes
the measure even more drastic than
I would be with the johnson provision
Incorporated.
The senate committee proposes 10
put S per cent limit on incoming
aliens. This means that immigrants
from any country shall be admitted
only to the number of 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 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
8 per cent limit immigration would be
so checked that the Americanization
of the incomers would be an easier
| process. For a long time the senate
has been thinking on this percentage
| limitation.
OF course 1t may be that the senate
friends of the Johnson absolute pro
hibition clause VIII be able in open
senate to reject the per cent limit
provision and secure the adoption OF
fhe house proposal, but today it looks
as II the percentage plan viii be ac
cepted by the senate and that the
| house will agree thereto.
There has been much bitterness ovel
this immigration legislation. Ii ha.
been charged, for instance, that the
senate did not desire absolute and i'm
mediate prohibition of immigration be
| cause the great corporations of the
country had declared that under tn,
/ provisions of such measure they
would not be able to get labor to carry
on their activities.
40 offset this charge the senate op
lponentS of the house provision for cut
ting off all immigration temporarily
I declared that the per cent limitation
would so farther in keeping out i'm
migrants than the Johnson provision
Itself, This answer To criticism hat
for its basis the fact that the pc
cent limitation concerns itself Will
ali prospective immigrants, while un
der the Johnson measure there wer,
provisions which womb adMit som,
of the dependents and members o
the families of immigrants now in thi
country.