The Denver Jewish news., 1924-05-01
Special Washington Letter
AntSemc Proposal introduced For First Time in u S.
Senate-Defeated BY Senate, But Only Because "Un-
workable"

who had been prepared to lead The
fight against the Sterling amendment
If any serious dcpossibility of adoption
developed. expressed his views as fol-
lows: I'VE have never dealt with any
nation except as n nation, and for the
United States in dealing with its prob
lem of Immigration to go into another
nation and attempt to base cur method
of immigration upon the different racial
groups in that nation would not only
he impossible of operation in my judg-
mcnt, but it would be Il variation
ings with other nations
The Senate, late yesterday. already
having previously adopted in the form
nf amendments the quota basis of the
hill. took II formal vote on the bill
a. n whole. with the result that it
was passed G2 to q. an even more over
whelming majority than that of the
House in passing the Johnson Bill.
The Senate hill. as adopted, differs
from the House hill in only three i'm
portant respects: The 28, of 1890. un-
der the Senate hill, only stays in eff
feet until July l. 1927. when Reeds
national origins plan goes into opera
tion. Under the first plan about 1G2,
600 will he admissible per year. which
will be reduced to 100000 per year
by the national origins basis. The sec
ond point of difference Is that the SEN
ate hill contains no exemption Of GER
lain relatives of citizens. which is pro-
vded in the House hill. This ex-
cmption would have enable admission
of thOiisan ands of additional immigrants
over and above the quota number. The
third difference Is the adoption yester-
day. OF Senator simmons of North
Carolina amendment to give preference
up to One-fOurth Of each country's quota
to agricultural lnborcrs. This will,
Of -~n~rse.. 'retfM~A ~ tlmt sxtpRt the
number of non-agricnlturni aliens, af-
fcctins mostly Jews.
Generally the Senate hill win cut
more thnn half the number OF mp
proximately :i5I 900 admissible under
the present 3ae law. The Senate hill
Is. therefore. much more restrictive
than the House hill. The national
origins plan Is also nothing less than
disguished form of the 1880 census
as 1t is almost equally discriminatory
against East and South European i'm
migration. Placing the burden of
proof Of eligibility sfor admission upon
the immigrant IL included in the Sen.
ale bill, being in that respect similar
to the house hill. The two bills are
otherwise practically identical. except
for the procedure regarding immigra-
tion certificates. In the Senate bill.
only certificate Is required, whereas
in the House bill. a visn passport and
certificate is required.
The Sena,e and the House bills will
now be taken up nt joint conference
between representatives of the two bod
les, who will endeavOr to agree on the
differences. The Senate cOnferees ap-
pointed yesterday were: Senators
Reed. Pennsylvania, Sterling, Kcyes.
King and Harris Senator King is the
only one inclined to be somewhat lib
eral. the rest are bitter restrictionists.
so there is no hope OF improvement of
the bill from that quarter As dem
OnstratiOn of the bitter restrictionist
feeling. can be seen the deliberate cmis-
sion Of Senator Colt, chairman of the
Senate Immigration committee, from
the conferees. because of his friendli-
ness to immigration As chairman. Sem
atOr Colt WIS entitled TO apOintment