Mr. Speaker. it is now evident that Congress will be unable to act on relieving the hardships caused by the present 3 per cent quota law. and. retiring as I do from this House after eight years of service as a member of the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. I feel it my duty to express what I believe is the problem which the Immigration Committee has been trying to solve. We must at the outset realize that the United States today has living under our flag and outside of fite continental area itself approximately a population of 108.710.620 in the 48 States of the Union. That in addition thereto we have over 13.000.000 of people living under our flag outside of the continental area. OUR ACCOMPLiSiII1rNTS SINCE 1890. The comlnittee having adopted the 1890 census as a basis of calculations. beca use it is claimed that the newer immigration was a detriment instead of a benefit. it is interesting to learn what we have achieved since 1890. As a result of our entering the Cuban war and later acquiring the Virgin Islands. a new era has come in all the West Indies. We have become a power in ihe affairs of the Pacific. having taken Guam and the Hawailan Islands.
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