That is what I mean. just as the Senator from Rhodb Island has stated. I did not suppose that any other meaning could possibly be taken from what I have said. The statistics of immigration since 1.790 are ours with almost complete accuracy. I admit. before some one rises to contradict me. that for the first 30 years the records are unofficial. and that there is a tolerance or margin of error tf perhaps 50.000 In the figures. but all authorities are agreed that immigration was approximately 300.000 persons in those first three decades. and that it all came from northwestern Europe. and since 1820 we know exactly how many people have come. and we know exactly from what country they have come. and It is possible by the same method. knowing the rate of increase of the population in each decade. to tell almost exactly how many people there are in the population of the United States today whose ancestors or themselves came from northwestern Europe. Mr. President. I admit that I am no authority on immigration. and that my ipse dixit is no proof that this Is a practicable method. but I want to refer you to the words of one of our colleagues who is an authority on immigrationthe senior Senator from Massachusetts . who served on the Immigration Committee of the Senate from 1895 to 1917. Ie was chairman of It twice. He has studied this subject for nearly half a century. and if there is one man in the United States who today is an authority on immigration. it is the senior Senator from Massachusetts. He had to be absent from the Senite this week. and before he left he rose and spoke on the question of this national origins amendment. There were not half a dozen Senators here in the Chamber to hear him. but his remarks are very brief. and I know that the Senators will indulge ine if I repeat them to the extent of about four or five sentences.
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