Making one sensational about face after another, the Senate yesterday by a vote of 37 to 36 adopted the amendment offered by Senator Swanson of Virginia, reversing the vote of last Monday repealing the National Origins plan, and restoring this plan. Senator Swanson in a statement to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency after the vote, said that the Senate is today expected to so perfect his amendment that the 150,000 immigrants admissible annually under the National Origins scheme will be cut to 82,000, thus restoring the National Origins plan in principle and cutting it in quantity.
The adoption of the Swanson amendment was followed by the adoption of an amendment to the Harris bill by Senator Harris himself reducing from the one and a half percent, as provided by the Norbeck National Origins repealing amendment, to one percent of the 1890 census the annual immigration quota, which means 80,000 admitted annually instead of the 120,000 provided by the Norbeck amendment.
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