The Senate Committee on Immigration ordered a favorable report on the Senate joint re## introduced by Senator Copeland intended to permit wives and minor children of alien declarants to enter the United States as nonquota immigrants.
The bill as reported is amended from the original so as to omit husbands. It applies to declarants between July 1, 1921 and July 1, 1924 and children under eighteen. Application must be made witting a year after passage of the act.
The committee also ordered a favorable report on a bill introduced by Senator Reed. Republican of Pennsylvania, increasing the salaries of immigrant inspectors, and another bill Senator Reed intended to amend the law of 1924 so as to make more strict the admission of teachers from foreign countries.
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