Evening star., 1943-10-22
Quick Senate Passage
OF Bill 10 Admit
Chinese Predicted
By GOULD LINCOLN.

Quick Senate passage OF the bill
repealing the 61-year-old ban OF
Chinese immigration was forecas
today in view of the expedition,
handling of the measure by the
House.
Senator Andrews, Democrat, ol
Florida. co-sponsor of the legisla-
tion, which passed the House yes
terday on a voice vote, said he was
urging its consideration by the
Senate without delay.
Approval of President Roosevelt
will follow automatically, since he
strongly has urged Congress to re.
peali the exclusion laws.
Both House Republicans ano
Democrats supported the bill, anC
only handful spoke against it. Sc
when the showdown came no op-
ponent demanded roll call, or even
a division. The measure was spon-
sored in the House by Representa-
tive Magnuson, Democrat, of Wash
ington.
Gossett Backs Bill.
Representative Gossett, Democrat
Of Texas, member of the House
immigration Committee, speaking in
the House, expressed the opinions OF
a large number of his colleagues
when he said:
This bill is the simplest, most in
expensive investment in world peace
that has yet been proposed to this
Congress. We are being flooded with
literally thousands of postwar plans.
many Of them gargantuan in their
scope.
Now here is simple act of
friendship and goodwill toward one
of the, potentially great nations of
the earth and 1t does not cost cent
In my opinion it will pay greater
dividends economically and spirit
ually than nine-tenths of the serious
postwar proposals."
He added that the repeal OF the
Chinese exclusion acts, giving China
her immigration quota into this
country, will help to destroy Jap
anese propaganda" widespread
in China. The JapS have been
telling the Chinese daily that pro-
fessions Of friendship by America
are hypoCritical; that once the war
is over they will be forgotten. The
Chinese best bet, the Japs say to
them, is to play along with Japan
for an Asia FOR the Asiatics"
Quota of los a Year.
China, under the bill, will be per-
nlitted an immigration quota along
with all other nations now the allies
Of this country, and with other
countries. This quota will amount
TO los immigrants a year. China,
1t IS said, is not exercised over the
number of immigrants of Chinese
blood who will be allowed to enter
the United States. 1t is the prin-
ciple Of the thing. The limit on all
immigration at present is about
10000 a year. The whole question
may be examined and acted upon
later. Some of the members of
Congress, thinking of the postwar
period, are anxious to have the i'm
migration quotas reduced by so per
cent. But that is a matter which
VIII come up later. The immigra-
tlon question forced itself to the
foreground after the last war.
The 1910 census listed II 5O4 Chi
nese IN this country. OF these. ap-
proXimately 10000 were foreign born
and $1,000 native born. In the
period from 1890 to the present time
the number of Chinese of foreign
extraction dropped from 100000 to
10000. The old Chinese people in
this country have been dying off,
causing the reduction. Under the
Acknowledgment bill, the laws
are changed to permit Chinese to
become American citizens. provided
they meet with all the requirements
for naturalization.