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Hungarys from 5.638 to 474. Italys from 42.057 to 3.912. Polands from 21.076 to 5.156. and similar reductions are to be observed for all those countries which have supplied what is now known as the " new immigration." Another interesting table is the following. which gives the number of quota immigrants and the number of their relatives to be admitted under the proposed act. as compared with the number of immigrants admitted under the law in force during the past two years: Quota and Quota ira- quota remigrants lative imadmitted migrants Relative Nationality under the admitted percentage act of May under pro19. 1921 posed Johnson bill United Kingdom_----------------------- 77. 342 125. 316 162. 0 Germany ------------------------------ 6 7. 607 102.854 152.0 France: ------------------------------- 5. 729 8. 228 143. 6 Norway -------------------------------- 12.202 13.308 109.0 Denmark ------------------------------ 5.619 5.970 106.3 Sweden -------------------------------- 20. 042 19. 522 97. 2 Poland ---------------------------------- 21.076 10.712 50.8 Eastern Galicia ------------------------- 5. 786 2.140 37.0 Austria --------------------------------- 7. 451 2.606 35. 0 Yugoslavia ------------------------------ 6. 426 2.112 32. 9 Czechoslovakia ------------------------- 14. 557 4.462 30.7 Hungary ------------------------------- 5.638 1.348 23. 9 Italy ------------------------------------ 42. 057 8.224 19. 6 Proponents of this measure maintain there are too many southern Europeans in America. Yet for the two years of the present bills existence the net result between immigration to and emigration from this country indicates there are 4.619 less Greeks here. 5.039 less Portuguese. 13.343 less Spaniards. while the Italians show a slight increase of 2.207. and Yugoslavians have remained about stationary. In order to justify his opinion. man is capable of some splendid demonstrations of mental somersaulting. Two years ago. when a bill similar to the one under consideration was before the House. the committee proposing the measure said in its report: It should be stated that the reduction of the quotas of the foreign born in the United States. according to the 1890 census. is not proposed for reasons in any sense discriminatory. Yet the author of the present bill. writing for the Nations Business for the issue of July. 1923. said: The new measure thus alms to change the character of our future Immigration by cutting down the number of aliens who can come from southern and eastern Europe. In other words. it Is recognized that. on the whole. northern and western Europe furnish the best material for citizenship. In the Journal of Commerce on January 15. 1924.