The first new Displaced Persons Bill designed to eliminate the discriminatory and unworkable features in the present DP law reached the floor of Congress today on the opening day of the new session.
It was introduced in the House by Rep. Francis A. Walter, Pennsylvania Democrat. It calls for raising the number of those admissible from 205,000 to 400,000, changes the admissibility date from Dec. 22, 1945 to April 21, 1947, and eliminates priority requirements that ho percent of those to be admitted be Balts and 30 percent he fanners.
An identical hill will be introduced in the Senate, probably on Wednesday, by Senate Majority Whip Francis J. Myers of Pennsylvania, his office said today. It will be held up until Wednesday because of an understanding among the Senators that they would introduce no bills until after the President’s message on the State of the Union on Wednesday.
Rep. Emanuel Celler of New York is also working on a DP bill and will probably introduce it soon, it was reported today.
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