ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1955-11-09
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee VIII
Begin Public Hearings November 21st
On Controversial kcCarran-W Walter Act

senator M.
Virginia, is the Chairman:
SENATE JUDICIARY SUBCOMMITTEE
ON IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION
Room 449-B Senate Office Building Washington 25 d. c.,
Telephone National 8-312O, Ext. 1913
Notice to submit requests Immediately for permission
to testify Tor to file statements for printed record
at Senate immigration Subcommittee hearings:
Senator Harley M. Kilgore, Chairman of the United
States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee immigration and
Naturalization has announced that public hearings will
be held by the subcommittee in the Senate Office Building
Washington 25 ID. c.. commencing November 21, 1855.
The hearings will be concerned with fundamental
national policies expressed in the immigration and Ma
tonaly Act of 1852 experience under the Act, and
consideration of several pending Senate bills to amend
the Act in whole in part.
The fundamental question is: What immigration and
naturalization policies best for the United States today?
The principal Senate bills to amend the basic Imm-
grafton Act are:
(a) s. 519 by Senators Ives, Saltonsta and Case
of New Jersey.
(b) S. 1906 by Senators Lehman, Green, Hum
phrey, Kefauver Kennedy, LANCER Magnu-
son, Mcnamara, Morse, Murray, Neuberger,
Pastore and Chavez
| (c) s. 1915, by Senators Humphrey Douglas,
Kennedy and Mcnamara.
individuals, groups and organizations interested in
appearing witnesses before the Senate immigration
Subcommittee in filing statements for the printed
record should send their requests Immediately to the
Subcommittee (above address, The professional staff
presently at work preparing the program and schedu
ing witnesses.
Requests for permission to be heard in person wit
ncsses should include the following information:
| 1. Name and address of the organization
2. Name(s) and address es) of witness es) proposed.
s.. Copies Of current resolutions of the organization
, relating to immigration and naturalization. -
Authorization by the organization for the proposed
witness (es). .; IN n.
1 Indicate
| ments to the immigration and Nationality Act
of 1852 5t1'* rt.
6. An outline of topics to be covered in testimony
Z. Estimated of time desired to present
timony ..e '',,,~ r..
Preferable dates for appearance of witness person
The public hearings have been scheduled for the fol-
lowing days:
a Monday and Tuesday: Nov. II and %, 1856
b. Monday through Friday, November % through
| December 2, 1855
! Possibly the week beginning Monday, December
), 1855.
Both the Supreme Board of the Croatian Fraternal
Union and the Delegates to the Societys 9th National
Quadrennal Convention record seeking revision
of the discriminatory Objectionable parts of the Nc
ICarran- Walter Act
The Supreme Board voted to do so in March of this
lyear while the 9th Convention Delegates acted in like vein
during their September 1926, 1855 proceedings in Phil
adepha, Pa.
Lodges wishing to enter protests should follow the
above instructions outlined for the public by the United
States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee and forward them
direct to Washington, D. c. for proper attention