Word: exclusionism
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¶ Defeated, 191 to 171, the joint conference report on the Immigration Bill setting forward the date of proposed Japanese exclusion to March 1, 1925, and ordered that phrase removed.
The President called the conference leaders to the White House. He pointed out that for the sake of amicable relations with Japan, the State Department would need some time in which to abrogate the "Gentleman's Agreement" (under which Japanese immigration has been regulated) and to smooth matters over diplomatically...
The conferees agreed. They reported the bill in this form. The House took it up. The Administration Republicans stood behind it. But the Democrats and west-coast Republicans were unalterably opposed. Republican Leader Longworth turned to the California delegation: "You have won your long fight for Japanese exclusion. Why imperil...
Senators and. Representatives conferred at the White House. Senator Colt of Rhode Island was one of those who went there. Le Baron Bradford Colt is distinguished because he is Chairman of the Senate Immigration Committee, because he was one of six Senators who voted against the present bill and because...
One proposal advanced was that the time at which the Japanese exclusion clause is to become effective might be set forward. In this way the State Department would be given lime in which to break with due formality the Gentlemen's Agreement, by which Japan has voluntarily restricted her...