The House of Representatives late Saturday passed the Johnson Deportation bill, without a record vote, after defeating a motion of Congressman La Guardia to recommit the bill to the House Immigration Committee. A Committee amendment to the bill was adopted for the deportation of any alien who is convicted of selling or transporting intoxicating liquor and sentenced to imprisonment therefor for a term of one year or a number of lesser terms aggregating a total of one year or more. Another amendment was previously adopted making gunmen and bomb carriers deportable.
The debate preceding the vote lasted about an hour and a half, consideration of the bill having been resumed where it had been left off on Friday. Congressman Sabath continued his fight to amend various alleged defective and objectionable features of the bill, to which he called attention in the minority report which he filed several days ago. The effort of La Guardia to amend the bill so as to make only those aliens deportable who are convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude was also defeated. Congressman La Guardia denounced what he termed some of the excessively stringent provisions of the bill.
This bill, as well as the Free bill for placing expert technicians in the preference quota class and the Box bill, excluding aliens as temporary visitors who seek to enter for employment, both of which were passed on Friday, now go to the Senate where early action on them is expected.
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