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Mr. President. to show that this vast volume of eligibles to naturalization to which I have just referred. are more largely of the new immigration than of the old. let me again refer to the census of 1910. From this it appears that the proportions of the immigrants of the various races who had failed to take out first papers were as follows: Of the Germans. 9.9 per cent only had failed to take out papers. of the Irish. only 13.8 per cent. of the Canadians. 28.3 per cent. of the English. 18.8. of the Swedes. 14.9. of the Norwegians. 1.6.2 per cent. of those from Scotland. 21.5 per cent. of those from Denmark. 13.8 per cent. of those from Holland. 19.6 per cent. of those from France. 27.8 per cent. and of those from Wales. 10.3 per cent. Among those representing the new immigration the percentage was much larger: Of the Russians. there were 52.4 per cent. from Italy. 65.7 percent. from Austria. 57.3 per cent. from Hungary. 68.2. from Mexico. 66.6 per cent. from Greece. 77.6. from Finland. 45.9 per cent. from Portugal. 64.3 per cent. and from Roumania. 45.2 per cent. It is apparent that the proportion of those not desiring citizenship is very much larger among those immigrants coming from eastern and southern Europe than those coming from western and northern Europe. I find. by making another reference to tire census. that out of the 3.075.000 of the old immigration in this country in 1910. .onl.y 12 per cent. or 370.000. have failed to take out first papers or to- become naturalized. while of the new immigration. out of the 1.980.998. 55 per cent. or 1.301.000. had failed to take out such papers.