(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
Senator Hiram Johnson, chairman of the Senate Immigration Committee, in a statement made to the delegation representing the Declarants Immigration League of New York, which called on him yesterday, announced that he favored Senator Wadsworth’s new bill to admit 35,000 wives and children of declarants who entered America prior to July 1, 1924.
Senator Copeland introduced the delegation to Senator Johnson. Each of the members of the delegation made a touching plea, describing the hardships which result from the separation of wives and children from the heads of the families and also told Senator Johnson of cases where wives abroad committed suicide because they could not secure visas to join their husbands in America.
The delegation also called on Congressman Albert Johnson of the House Immigration Committee, who likewise manifested a sympathetic attitude with regard to the new bill, an almost similar counterpart of which has been introduced in the House by Congressman Perlman.
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