BILL ON REFUGEES MEETS OPPOSITION WASHINGTON, May 31.-(AP)- - Legislation to admit 20,000 refugee children from Germany encountered opposition from the American Legion today, but a Legion man who is a member of congress championed an amended version of the measure. John Thomas Taylor, legislative representative of the ex-service men's organization, told the house committee considering the bill that the Legion's New York convention had opposed any lessening of immigration restrictions and that its executive committee had disapproved the pending proposal, specifically. The witness that the legislation, introduced by Senator Wagner (D.-N. Y. and Representatives Rogers (R.-Mass, and Dingell (D.-Mich.), was an effort to break down the country's immigration laws, under which the number of immigrants is limited by quotas assigned different countries. Representative Poage (D.-Tex.) told Taylor that he was a Legion member and that he was introducing an amendment which would protect the quotas system. It would permit the child refugees to be brought in under visitor's visas, he said, and they would be charged against the regular quota, of immigrants from Germany after they reached 21 years of age and applied for citizenship.
