Majority House Committee Favors Wadsworth-perlman Bills

(Jewish Daily Balletin)

The majority of the House Immigration Committee is said to have reached a definitely favorable conclusion with regard to the exemption from the quota of the wives, husbands, and children under eighteen of both citizens and declarants and also for the exemption of all refugees holding old visas, as well as the wives and minor children of rabbis. According to a statement made by a committee member to the “Jewish Daily Bulletin” correspondent yesterday, the attitude of the Committee in this respect is still uncertain. Final decision will be taken at the executive sessions of the Committee to be held within the next few weeks. The House will probably be guided by whatever the majority of the Committee recommends, he stated.

A set back to speedy action relative to the relief measures occurred, however, when the Committee decided to consider and report on the Deportation Bill first. There are certain features in the Deportation Bill, such as the one to abolish the existing five year deportation limitation period. which would enable the deportation of alfens who entered illegally, irrespective of the length of residence. These provisions will probably cause considerable discussion and may delay the action by both the Committee and the House on the Wadsworth and Perlman bills.

These bills will be considered by the Committee as soon as the Deportation Bill is disposed of and will take precedence over the Registration Bill which is also scheduled for consideration.

Congressman Jacobstein of Rochester appeared before the Committee hearing yesterday and submitted statistics in opposition to the State Department’s estimate that $77.000 additional immigrants will enter if the Perlman-Wadsworth Bills are passed.

Jacobstein showed that only 80.000 additional emergences are involved. If only the wives, husbands and minor children are except, excluding the parents, Jacobstein having expressly omitted the parents from the bill which he introduced. He pointed car that the State Department figures were based on admitting the parents also and stated these figures were not excessive if parents are also except from the quota.

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Jacobstein said the Committee that the total of ###### relative of both ### and declarant admissable under this bill could be easily assimilated by America’s 110,000,000 population. He suggested that the parents be given preferential status within qnora as provided by his bill. Jacobstain pointed out that over half of the State department’s estimate was Italy’s 350,000, which was caused in his opinion by the Italian government’s reinstall in permit the wives and children to join their husbands in America. Following Jacobstein’s statement Coen Dubois. State Department visa chief. submitted a supplementary statement increasing the total estimate to 622,000 caused by reports from censuls in various European cities of 45,000 additional Russian relatives. It seems to be the general impression that the high figure of 622,000. which as shown by Jacobstein is caused by the parents will reader exemption of parents ver difficult.

Jacobstein estimated that 800.000 parents of declarants alone would possibly come in if they were except, figuring one parent for every two of the one million declarants in the United States He figured fifty thousand additional parents of citizens.