A Group of Democratic and Republican Senators announced today dissatisfaction with the Senate Judiciary Committee proposal to admit 200,000 displaced persons to the United States within the next two years and said ?y would campaign for the admission of at least 200,000 during the same period.
The bi-partisan drive is headed by Senator Homer Ferguson (R-Mich.) and Senator toward McGrath (D-R.I.). The latter is chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
The Senators insisted that the committee’s proposal, which would admit ###000 DP’s a year for two years under certain restrictions, should be amended. Senior Ferguson announced he will offer an amendment from the Senate floor which will ###se the over-all figure to 200,000 to be admitted to this country by June 30,1950.
Sen. Ferguson expressed confidence that his amendment would be approved. ##. McGrath, expressing dissatisfaction with the committee bill, declared that be-##se of the housing and vocational restrictions attached to it, he doubted that ##n 50,000 displaced persons would be able to enter the country.
The committee’s bill specified that at least 50 percent of the DP’s admitted the U.S. must be agricultural workers, that they must be “needed” here and that ##y must be able to obtain “decent, safe and sanitary housing without displacing ## other person.” McGrath asserted that the requirement that half of those admitted farmers was “unjustified,” in view of the present demand for skilled workers in ## garment, textile, logging and fishing industries.
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