NATIONAL ORIGINS PROVISION OF IMMIGRATION IAW
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1929
UNTrED STATES SENATE,
CoMMITTEE ON InmicraTION,
Washington, 1. C.
The committee met, pursuant to adjournment, at 10 o’clock a. m.,
in the room of the Committee on Military Affairs, Capitol, Hon.
Hiram W. Johnson (chairman) presiding.
Present: Senators Johnson, Keyes, Reed, Gould, King, Harris,
Copeland, Blease, and Stephens.
The Cramaan. This committee, now consisting of two members,
will come to order; and I am going to say, for the sake of the record,
unless more members attend these hearings I am going to summarily
adjourn them this morning and conclude them. The hearings were
called at the instance of those who favored the so-called Nye resolu-
tion and those who opposed it. The two who are present were prob-
ably the most open-minded of the members of the committee upon the
subject, and neither the proponents nor the opponents of the resolu-
tion have attended in any very large numbers, and the two open-
minded members of the committee who thus far have attended will,
as Senator Keyes agrees with me, unless the others come to our rescue,
conclude the hearing this morning,
Congressman Reece wishes to say something in respect to this
resolution, and so, out of order, we will have vou make that state-
ment as you desire.
STATEMENT OF HON. B. CARROLL REECE, REPRESENTATIVE IN
CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF TENNESSEE
Representative Reece. Mr. Chairman, as a representative in the
other body, I am naturally interested in this question. But I am
present this morning at the request of Judge Noyes, the representa-
tive of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, to express
the views of that order, in view of the fact that Judge Noyes him-
self is ill and could not be here. This order has a membership in the
United States of some 400,000 thousand. The views of the members
venerally and of the officials of the Junior Order is that the na-
tional-origins clause ought to become operative as is now provided
that it should not be repealed or the operation of this provision of
the law extended. They are very much of the opinion that in the
determination of our future citizenship that recognition should be
oiven to the blood which has built America and American institu-
tions and which has defended America at all times, and not be
based upon the quota of aliens which might be residing in this coun-
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