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¶Passed (62 to 6) the Immigration Bill, with a quota basis of 2% of the 1890 census and an amendment limiting immigration (after 1927) to an annual total of 150,000.
The Senate adopted Mr. Pittman's amendment to Mr. Simmons' amendment providing that the states may designate their agricultural requirements and that?up to 50%?agricultural immigrants will be preferred.
The decision of the Senate that the white race and the yellow race do not mix to mutual advantage, which has been expressed in the recently passed amendment to the immigration bill, seems eminently sound, and has the approval of the country at large. It is unfortunate, however, that some...
Just why it is necessary to settle a question of this sort by Congressional legislation, which must unavoidably appear somewhat highhanded, instead of by treaty, is hard to see. As it stands now, the amendment accomplishes little but an official enactment of the well known "Gentlemen's Agreement", and it...
By a vote of 76-2 the Senate rejected an amendment which would have kept the "Gentlemen's Agreement" intact. Next day they voted unanimously for complete exclusion of all Japanese except ministers, artists, students, their wives and children.