Speech #630433804

Just prior to the adjournment last evening I had been calling the attention of the Senate to the decrease in the percentage of those~races in the United States which were born in northern and western Europe and the unexampled increase which had occurred durin.g the 10 years between 1900 and 1910 in the numbers of those races coming from eastern and southern Europe. I had also called attention to T the fact that of the 11.000.000 .immigrants who had -been admitted from eastern and southern Europe :in :the preceding 17 years probably 75 per cent had gone directly to the -industrial centers of the United :States and were to be found in our cities. Conditions in the cities had not been so much changed when President Cleveland interposed :his .veto against a similar bill in 1897. He said: It can not be shown. however. that It affects all cities. nor that it Is permanentHe is speaking about the influx of men of foreign nationsnor does it appear that this condition. where It exists. demands as its remedy the reversal of our present immigration policy. The fact that the increase in the population of our cities has largely come by reason of foreign immigration during the last two decades has been sharply challenged in debate in this body during the present session. For that reason I beg leave to call the attention of the Senate to some facts which I have gleaned from the census of 1910. and among them the following: I find .that in 1900. 64.6 per cent of all those born abroad residing in New England and the Middle Atlantic States of New York. Pennsylvania. and New Jersey were in the cities. and I find that 10 years later. in 1910. 70 per cent of the foreign born in !that vast territory were found in the cities. The same authority states that in the Middle Atlantic States. New York.