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I would also like to say that I received from Mrs. Linkletter, who
testified on Wednesday, a telegraphic request that I correct her testi-
mony. In presenting her attitude she said that her organization was
in favor of the 1924 census, but what she meant to say was that she
was in favor of the 1924 act as it stands with the national origins.
If I have the committee’s permission, I would like to make that cor-
rection.
I would also like to present resolutions I have here——-
hs CHAIRMAN. You can present them without reading, if you
please. oo
Mr. Lroyp. The significant paragraph is—this is signed by Mus.
Linkletter—
The CuamrmaN. They will be printed in the record, if you please.
Mz. Lroyp. It is just merely a correction. She used the wrong
word.
(The resolutions referred to are as follows:)
whereas Senate Joint Resolution 192 introduced by Senator Nye provides for
a further postponement of one year in putting into effect the national-ovigins
clause of the immigration aet of 1924 by which the inequalities in the quotas
of certain countries determined on the 1890 foreign-born celtsus basis are re-
moved so that our immigration is apportioned fairly in accordance with the
number of people in our present population of each national origin; and
Whereas said national-origins provision is a fundamental part of the system
of quota restriction adopted by Congress in 1924, and further delay in putting
the same into effect amounts to repudiation of our whole present system of
restriction ;
Resolved by the Hudson County Branch of New Jersey of the Immigration
Restriction League (Ire), at a regular meeting held on the jth day of Febru-
try, 1929, That said Senate Joint Resolution 192 is against the public interest
and should not be enacted into law.
Sapye E. LINKLETTER, President.
Epwarp L. MAYER, Secretary.
Whereas a bill (H. R. 349), amended by the Senate committee, and reported
favorably to the Senate by Senator Copeland, which would permit the legaliza-
tion of aliens who illegally entered the country prior to July 1, 1924, thus
permitting such illegal entrants to become naturalized; and
Whereas a similar bill introduced by Congressman Schneider (H. R. 13793)
has been reported favorably in the House of Representatives; and
Whereas the passage of said bills would strike a serious blow at our whole
system of naturalization by making citizens out of thousands and probably
hundreds of thousands of aliens who have never been in the country except
as trespassers and who have never passed inspection under the immigration
laws : Therefore be it
Resolved by the Immigration Restriction League (Inc.) (Hudson County,
N. J., branch, at a regular meeting held on the 4th day of February, 1929),
That said bills, H. R. 349 and H. R. 13793, are against the public interest and
should be defeated in both Houses of Congress.
SADYE BE. LINRKLETTER. President.
EpwaARrRDp Li. MAYER, Sr.
I1. Resolved, That the Hudson County Brauch, of New Jersey, of the Immi-
gration Restriction League (Inc), at a regular meeting held on the 4th day
of February, 1929, hereby indorses Senate bill 5903, introduced by Senator
Blease, for the issuance of certificates of admission to aliens who have law-
fully entered the United States in compliance with our laws, and also Senate
bill 5904, introduced by Senator Blease, making the reentry of previously
deported aliens a felony.
Epwarp IL. MAYER, Sr.
ITI. Resolved, That the Hudson County branch, of New Jersey, of the Immi-
gration Restriction League (Ine.), at a regular meeting held on the 4th day
