Following an address here last night in which he vigorously assailed immigration policies of the present administration, Congressman Samuel Dickstein, of New York, Chairman of the House Immigration Committee, informed the Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent here that he is now drafting a special bill for submission to the December session of Congress, which, in his estimation, will hasten consideration of “official cases” of those adversely affect by present immigration restrictions.
If this bill should be enacted into law, appeal cases would be transferred from consideration by the State Department to the Labor Department. The Congressman is of the opinion that the latter department is better equipped to give more conscientious consideration to such cases.
Dickstein asserted in his address here that under present laws “a bootlegger or racketeer can get into this country, but 300,000 fine, good people are barred because they cannot spell or read English.” He charged Congressman Randolph Perkins, of New Jersey, with being “the meanest man of whom I wish I could make a public spectacle in his own Ku Klux Community because he spoke in Congress against the bill introduced by me, which would have permitted husbands of naturalized wives or aged parents of American citizens to be exempt under present restrictive measures.”
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