(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
The House Committee for Immigration and Naturalization held a hearing yesterday on the Perlman-Wadsworth bills concerning the admission of near relatives as non quota immigrants.
A representative of the Visa Office of the State Department, appearing before the Committee, submitted figures to show that 200,000 persons would in his estimate be permitted to land in the United States as relatives who would come in under the Perlman-Wadsworth bills.
During the hearing Congressman Samuel Dickstein, in cross-examination, brought out an admission of the representative of the Visa Office of the State Department that this estimate was purely a guess and is not based on reliable information.
Congressman Dickstein also asked of the representative of the State Department to explain the reported failure of some consuls to give preferred treatment to refugees. The question was also asked why some emigrants have been apparently discriminated against, being compelled to wait three or four years for visas.
The representative of the State Department declared he would appear before the Committee again to answer these criticisms.
Congressman Summers of New York has introduced a bill to enable the exemption of the same relatives named by the Perlman and Wadsworth bills, and in addition granchildren under eighteen of citizens or declarants, and brothers and sisters of citizens.
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