Mr. Chairman. I yield three she gave to the cause her only two sons. that they must be minutes to the gentleman from Minnesota . taken into custody and deported to a country where nothing but Mr. NEWTON of Minnesota. Mr. Chairman. during the last starvation awaits them. fiscal year nearly 1.000.000 immigrants were permitted to enter Mr. Chairman. the gentleman from Louisiana . our country. Thousands upon thousands of others would have who preceded me. has read from an article from the Saturday come over if it had not been for the restrictions of tile vis( law. Evening Post. wherein the writer points out the great dangers This Congress felt that for the present at least immigration to our Nation faces because of our broad and liberal immigration the extent of 1.000.000 per year was far too much. and passed policies in the past. To bim and all others who are engaged. as the 3 per cent law which provided for a laxiium of 355.000. well as those who employ them to write these articles. I will providing every country tilled its quota. Up to the present time say that the actual facts completely belie their charges and about 200.000 have been admitted. and as many countries have assertions. If they were desirous of giving the actual truth already exhausted their quotas. probably not to exceed 250.000 as to the effect that immigration had upon our Nation. they will enter this fiscal year. This 3 per cent law was not a subwould be obliged to say that the real increase in immigration stitute for existing restrictive laws but an addition. It was a commenced in 1880. and since that time th6 country has in- further restriction. It said in effect that regardless of qualicreased its wealth from $43.000.000.000 to $290.000.000.000 in fications under existing law not more than the 3 per cent shall 1921: our exports have increased from $835.000.000 in 1880 to enter. $6.516.000.000 in 1921. in 1.880 mnoney in circihltion anounted It was a distinct departure from existing law.
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