(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
Senator Wadsworth was unsuccessful in his attempt on the floor of the Senate to secure consideration of his joint bill introduced by him in the Senate and by Congressman Perlman in the House for the exemption from the quota of wives and unmarried children under eighteen of declarants admitted to American prior to July 1, 1924, limiting the number of such immigrants to 35,000.
The matter came up when Senator Reed of Pennsylvania asked for consideration of his bill to admit, free of the quota restrictions, American-born women who had married aliens prior to the Cable Act and thereby have lost their American citizenship. Senator Wadsworth immediately called attention to the fact that when Senator Reed’s bill was offered in the last session of Congress, he proposed his relative bill as an amendment thereto. He, therefore, insisted upon an immediate consideration thereof. Senator Willis thereupon objected and under the rule of procedure in force, one Senator’s objection was sufficient to prevent consideration. Therefore both Senator Reed’s bill and Senator Wadsworth’s amendment were passed over.
It will be recalled that the Wadsworth measure was rejected by the Senate Immigration Committee at the last session, but Senator Wadsworth is determined he would endeavor to get consideration by the entire Senate body despite the unfavorable prospect of acceptance without Committee approval. In order to bring the hardship of the separation of relatives again to the attention of the Senate, and if possible, secure further consideration by the Committee, he has reintroduced the same joint bill which he offered last session.
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