The Senate yesterday passed a bill calling on President Coolidge to inform the Senate regarding the status of further investigations of the estimated immigration quotas under the national origins plan. The reason for the adoption at the resolution is the President’s withdrawal of the estimates submitted to the Senate over a year ago because as the President stated, at that time the secretaries of State, Conference and Labor constituting the committee on the subject had grave doubt concerning the accuracy of the original figures.
Senator Reed of Pennsylvania declared during the discussion that he understood from the Censu. Bureau which originally compiled these figures that they are confident of their accuracy as established by later study. Nevertheless he supported the bill.
The Senate also passed a bill authorizing exemption from the quota of teachers having written contracts approved by the Secretary of Labor to teach for a definite term with any college, academy, seminary or university, as well as the wives and unmarried children under eighteen of such teachers. The bill requires these institutions of learning to report both the continuation and termination of employment of these teachers, as they and their families must leave the United States upon the expiration of their term. The bill also calls for the withdrawal of the approved status from any institution failing to make prompt reports.
Senator Willis of Ohio opposed this bill on the ground that American colleges and universities already have too many foreign professors, and college students are graduating with too much of an international and too little of an American viewpoint.
Rabbi Samuel M. Gup of Temple Beth-El, Providence, R. I. delivered an address at the annual Washington Day Exercises, held before the House of Representative and Senate of Rhode Island.
The sixth annual conference of the Seabord Region of the Zionist Organization will be held February 26 and 27 in Richmond, Virginia.
Morris Rothenberg, vice president of the Zionist Organization of America, Rabbi Wolf Gold of San Francisco vice president of the Mizrachi Organization will be among those who will address the sessions at the Richmond Hotel.
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