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Switzerland. and the United Kingdom was 6.740.000. Under the 5 per cent basis there would be permitted to come in 347.000 during the year. but as a matter of fact these people do not want to come in such numbers as that. Attention is called to the fact that while under the provisions of the proposed amendment the number permitted to enter the United States in any fiscal year of the older immigration class from northern and western Europe would be. as I have said. 337.000. when as a matter of fact tile normal flow of this immigration annually from 1910 to 1914 was only 132.000. The people of northern and western Europe do not want to come here In large numbers. While they would have a right to come in larger numbers annually. we would not in any event get more than 130.000 a year. and we should be very glad to have them come.