If we are arbitrarily to select another census date so as to meet the prejudices or predilections of any particular ancestral lineage. we might just as well choose 1790 as 1890. or any intervening census. for that matter. I am opposed to the change in the census date proposed in this bill. because it seems to me to be based on prejudice rather than reason. I might favor a quota law which took account of the percentages of naturalization. such as I understand Commissioner Husband Indorses. I might favor such a proposal as I have understood that Secretary Davis proposed. a change of a 2 per cent quota on the basis of the 1910 census. I might favor some other quota basis founded upon broad general lines.
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