Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-03
Attempt to Get Action on
Bill Postponing Putting Ma
tionaI Origins Proviso Into
Effect Made in Senate.
HOUSE DUE TO STUDY
SIMILAR MEASURE
Watson Sponsors Move to Recess
Until Tomorrow, but Counter
Proposal of Couzens for Conven.
ing Is Adopted by 34-to-27 as
Opponents Marshal Forces.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Even though its major tasks are
finished and its party skirmishing
over, legislation of lesser magni-
tude will force the Seventieth
Congress to hold the first Sunday
session on Capitol Hill since 1923.
An eleventh-hour attempt to
obtain action of bill to postpone
for another year the placing into
effect of the national origins
clause of the immigration act re-
suited late last night in the Senate
agreeing to reconvene this morn
ing.
The House, earlier in the eve
ming, abandoned plans for a
night meeting and recessed until
10 am. today to take up similar
measure and opponents of the
national origins provision in the
Senate successfully contended that
the Senate should be in session to
consider the bill if it should be
approved by the House.
The Senate agreed to meet at
ll:10 am. after rejecting by a
vote of 40 to Is a motion to recess
until tomorrow.
The move to obtain a vote on the
national origins provision bill was initi-
ated late in the day after both houses
smoothed over differences on the two
deficiency appropriation measures and
the long-pending Interior Department
supply bill.
Nye Leads Opposition.
Senator Nye, Republican. North Da-
kota, one of the opponents to the ma
tlonal origins provision, started the ef-
fort to prevent this section of the i'm
migration law from becoming effective
July /. The pending bill would defer
operations of the clause for one year.
The unsuccessful motion to have the
Senate adjourn until tomorrow morning
was sponsored by Senator Watson of In
diana, the acting Republican leader. A
counter proposal by Senator Couzens,
Republican, Michigan, for Sunday
session prevailed by a vote of "a to
81.
Senator Reed, Republican. Pennsyl-
vania, is just as determined to prevent
adoption of the postponement reSolu-
ton as its friends are for its passage.
II the national origins provision
should become operative, it would re-
duce the annual immigration into this
country from about 10000 to about
l53 900, and Great Britain would gain
considerably, while Germany. the Irish
Free State and the Scandinavian coun-
tries generally would be cut down.
Action Mandatory at Present.
Unless Congress postpones the pro-
vision, it is mandatory that the Presi-
dent, on April /, issue a proclamation
putting it into effect.
During the night session, which drew
a large crowd to the Capitol, many of
them out-of-town Inauguration visitors,
Senator Norris. Republican. Nebraska.
renewed his attack on rates charged for
electricity by public utilities, and told
his colleagues that by the end of the
year, it was his opinion. the bulk of
the utility business will have been gath
cred into a relatively few hands"
Senator Stephens. Democrat from
Mississippi. for a moment diverted at
tention from a District of Columbia
park bill under consideration by Offer
ing a resolution requesting an investi-
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