Senators J. Howard McGrath, chairman of theDemocratic National Committee and Carl A. Hatch yesterday introduced a bill for the admission of 200,000 DP’s to the U.S. within a period of two years.
The bill, which is very similar to a measure passed by the House Judiciary Committee, differs from a Senate Judiciary Committee bill calling for only 100,000 immigrants. The Senate committee bill also provides for giving half the visas to former nationals of the Baltic countries, but the McGrath-Hatch substitute measure provides for the proportion to be based on I.R.O. statistics of each DP group. The substitute measure, however, differs from the House bill in that it does not mortgage future quotas for admitting the DP’s in the immediate future.
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