Text of Johnson Bill to Further Restrict Immigration Published

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

The bill calling for a further restriction of immigration which Chairman Johnson of the House Immigration Committee introduced on the eve of adjournment of Congress, and which he stated will be re-introduced by him at the next session, provides for the repeal of the National Origins provisions of the present Immigration law. At present these provisions have only been postponed for one year. The full text of Representative Johnson’s bill is as follows:

“That immigration quotas, as determined under subdivision (a) of section 11 of the Immigration Act of 1924, shall be reduced 10 per centum per annum from and after July 1, 1928, until June 30, 1933, after which date the annual quota of any nationality shall be 1 per centum of the number of foreign-born individuals of such nationality resident in continental United States as letermined by the United States centus of 1890. Provided, that from July 1, 1928, until June 30, 1933, the minimum quota of any nationality shall be 100, and after June 30, 1933, the minimum quota of any nationality shall be fifty: Provided further, that during the fiscal years 1929 and 1930 quota numbers equal to one-half of the reductions herein authorized for such fiscal years shall be set aside for and made available to the unmarried children under twenty-one years of age and the wives of aliens lawfully admitted to the United States, married prior to July 1, 1924: Provided further, that after July 1, 1928, the maximum quota for any country entitled to quotas shall be 25,000.

“Section 2. The national origins provisions of the Immigration Act of 1924, being subdivisions (b), (c), (d), and (e) of section 11 of the Immigration Act of 1924, are hereby repealed.

“Section 3. The Secretary of State and the Secretary of Labor shall jointly make regulations carrying this Act into effect.”

JACOB LANDAU SAILS FOR PALESTINE ON AQUITANIA

Jacob Landau, managing director of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and the “Jewish Daily Bulletin,” sailed Friday night on the Aquitania for Europe and Palestine.

While in Palestine Mr. Landau will take steps to extend the service to the American and Jewish press from Palestine and the Near Eastern countries, through the Palestine Telegraphic Agency. The Palestine Telegraphic Agency publishes the “Palestine Bulletin,” the only English daily in the country of which Mr. Landau is one of the directors.

During his trip Mr. Landau will also make a study of Jewish conditions in Roumania, Jugoslavia and other Balkan countries.