Emigration

If the Johnson bill now before the U. S. Congress becomes a law, Italian emigration into the U. S. will be reduced to 19.6% of the present allowance, about 42,000 emigrants.

In a communication of protest to the U. S., the Italian Government said: "It is sincerely hoped that the Government of the United States will use every effort in suggesting to Congress a way of not reducing to a devisory figure the immigration of the people that have contributed so much to the productivity and prosperity of the United States, and that a solution of the immigration problem may be arrived at that will not affect so harshly the interests and the pride of the Italian nation, which has always had for the American people feelings of true friendship and esteem."

The Corriere della Sera, Milan daily, plaintively asked: "How shall we be able to buy from America grain, machinery, cotton, preserved goods, meats, etc., if we are not able to send to America our goods and the services of our emigrants? How can we pay our War debt of three and one-half billion lire if America refuses the only means of payment open to us--that is, the export of our goods and the labor of our emigrants?"