HfanY CABOT LoDGE. Wa.hlngtow. D. 0.: In line with your speech of yesterday Federal estimate of population of Massachusetts. on which. our quota for draft is based. is 3.939.561 . actual population by 1915 State census wits 3.693.310. assuming average Increase In two years has been same as during fiveyear period between 1910 and. t.915.. although it Is probably less. as immigration. has been greatly reduced. State population would now be approximately 3.824.068. or 115.493 .es. than Federal estimate. Unless latter can be reduced to more equitable figure I must accept same as basis for distributing .quotas for local board districts.
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