Mr. Speaker. the bill we are asked to pass here today is a method of restricting immigration based upon an idea or system which has never been discussed on the floor of the House heretofore. It is legislation that has been agreed upon in conference. For the first time In the history of the Nation we are asked to legislate so that Immigrants who desire to come to America shall be limited to 3 per cent of the nationals of that particular country who were in America on April 1. 1910. No logical reason can be urged why the basic foundations of this legislation. if it is desirable. should not be in accordance with the census of 1920. The census figures of 1920 will be ready not later than on April 15 of this year. The Director of the Census has told me so personally. and as chairman of the Census Committee I am in a position to state that they will be ready not later than April 15. 1921. The net result of using the census of 1910. gentlemen. is to permit the entry into the United States from Germany and Austria. countries with which we are still officially at war. onethird of all the immigrants who are to be allowed to come into America during the next year.
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