Japanese Barred by New Bill

Immigration Quotas Reduced

House Committee Approves Important Provisions of Measure, Including One Writing "Gentlemen's Agreement" Into Law.

Seattle Times -- Chicago Tribune -- N.Y. Times Special Service.

WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Feb. 6. -- A provision which would operate to prohibit the immigration of Japanese is included in the bill revising immigration quotas downward approved by the House committee on immigration yesterday.

"An immigrant not eligible to citizenship shall not be admitted to the United States," the bill provides, unless he is an immigrant "returning from a temporary visit abroad," a "minister of any religious denomination, professor of any college or seminary, or member of any recognized learned profession, or a bona fide student, who seeks to enter the United States solely for the purpose of study at an educational institution particularly designated by him.

Under a recent decision of the United States Supreme Court, Japanese are not eligible to citizenship.

Although Japan has protested hitherto against such proposed legislation, the committee did not consult the State Department.

Some Reductions Drastic.

As an example of the drastic reductions made in some quotas, the Italian quota is reduced from 42,057 as at present, to 3,912 plus 400, or 4,312 under the new bill.

Comparisons between quotas for immigration of some of the other nationalities under the present 3 per cent law, based on the 1910 census, with the proposed 2 per cent quota, based on the 1890 census, the latter figures, not including the 400 basic number, follow:

Austria ................................... 7,451 (Present Quota, 3 Per Cent); 1,103 (2 Per Cent)
Belgium ................................. 1,563; 510
Czecho-Slovakia .................... 14,557; 2,013
France .................................... 5,729; 3,914
Germany ................................ 67,607; 51,227
Greece .................................... 3,294; 47
Hungary ................................. 5,638; 474
Netherlands ............................ 3,607; 1,637
Norway .................................. 12,202; 6,454
Poland ..................................... 21,076; 5,156
Esthonian region ..................... 1,348; 124
Latvian region ......................... 1,348; 142
Lithuanian region .................... 2,310; 213
Sweden .................................. 20,042; 9,561
United Kingdom .................... 77,342; 62,458
Jugo-Slovakia ......................... 6,426; 851
Turkey .................................... 2,388; 129

The new bill provides that consular offices shall issue immigration certificates to aliens in foreign countries desiring to come to the United States.

The term "non-quota immigrant," which means those who may be permitted to come into the Untied States in any number without reference to quotas embrace the following classes:

(a) An immigrant who is husband, wife, father, mother, or unmarried minor child, unmarried minor brother or sister, or unmarried orphan niece or nephew of a citizen of the United States who resides therein at the time of the filing of a petition under Section 8.

(b) An immigrant who is the husband, wife, or unmarried minor child of an alien who (1) has been permanently admitted to the United States, (2) has resided in the United States continuously for at least two years prior to the filing of a petition under Section 8, and (3) has at least one year prior to the time of the fling of the petition under Section 8, declared his intention, in the manner provided by law, to become a citizen of the United States.

(c) An immigrant returning from a temporary visit abroad.

(d) An immigrant who has resided continuously for at least five years immediately preceding the time of his application for admission to the United States in the Dominion of Canada, Newfoundland, the Republic of Mexico, the Republic of Cuba, countries of Central or South America, or adjacent islands, and his wife and minor children if accompanying him.

(e) An immigrant who continuously for at least two years immediately preceding the time of his application for admission to the United States has been and who seeks to enter the United States solely for the carrying on of the vocation of minister of any religious den mination, professor of a college or seminary, or member of any recognized learned profession.

(f) An immigrant who is a skilled laborer, if labor of like kind unemployed cannot be found in this country, and the question of the necessity of importing such skilled labor in any particular instance may be determined by the secretary upon the application of any person interested, such application to be made before the issuance of the immigration certificate and such determination by the secretary to be reached after a full hearing and an investigation into the facts of the case.

(g) The wife or minor child of an immigrant admissible under subdivision (e) or (f), if accompanying or following to join him; or

(h) An immigrant who is a bona fide student and who seeks to enter the United States solely for the purpose of study at an educational institution particularly designated by him.