The points at issue are, as you know, complicated, and there is at
the present time so much disagreement with respect to them that it
seems unlikely that any bill resolving these differences could be
prepared and passed in the few days remaining of this first session
of the Seventy-Fourth Congress.
However, I doubt if the differences are permanently irreconcilable,
and I am asking the Secretaries of State, Commerce and Labor each
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to designate one
person from his Department to form a joint committee that may
discuss the proposals involved with you, with your organization, and
with such other persons or parties as may have an interest in the
situation. After this committee has held conferences, I hope that it
can agree upon a program which it can present to the next session of
Congress, and which will have the united endorsement of the
Executive departments and of interested persons.
[The Committee requested by the President was constituted by the
appointment of the following: John Farr Simmons, Chief of the
Visa Division, Department of State, August 24, 1935; J. B.
Fordham, Junior Assistant to the Secretary of Labor, August 23,
1935; and S. D. Schell, Assistant Director of the Shipping Board
Bureau, Department of Commerce, September 3, 1935.]
