(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
The proposal submitted by Senator Wads-worth for the admission of 35,000 wives and minor children of aliens admitted to the United States prior to July 1, 1924, who have taken their declaration papers, was adopted today by the Senate.
The proposal, which was adopted 39 to 37, was stubbornly contested by some proponents of the immigration law on the ground it was an “opening wedge to the breakdown of the Immigration Restriction Act.”
Senator Wadsworth offered the proposal as an amendment to a House bill granting entry outside of the quota restrictions to American women who lost their citizenship by marriage to aliens. The House bill was then passed, 44 to 31, but the House has to act on the Wadsworth amendment.
The apportionment of wives and children who would be admitted under the amendment would be worked out by an “equitable distribution among the various nationalities.”
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