Speech #680081369

Mr. Speaker. I desire to supplement my speech on the immigration bill made in the House on Tuesday. April 8. by inserting a table which I have prepared showing the results of various methods of determining the quotas allotted to immigrants from foreign countries. The table referred to follows: Quotas Senate National origins commit- method of 1920 censti. Johnson tee recom- plus 100 in each case bil2 mendaNationality Present bill- t ienlaw per cent t of 1890 per ccnt plus j00 of 1910. 150.000 200.000 250.000 with I minimum base base base of 100 Albania ------------------- 28 104 192 118 124 130 Armenia ------------------ 230 117 152 150 167 184 Austria ------------------- 7.342 1.090 4.894 1.942 2.557 1.171 Belgium ------------------ 1.563 609 1.042 359 440 532 Bulgaria ------------------- 302 100 202 132 143 155 Czechoslovakia ----------- 14.357 1.973 9. 572 1.419 1.859 2.299 Danzig -------------------- 01 323 200 149 165 182 Denmark ------------------0 . (19 2.832 3. 746 1. 191 1.555 1.919 Esthonia ----------------- 1. 348 202 898 321 395 468 Finland ------------------- 3.921 245 2. 614 597 763 030 Flume --------------------- 71 110 100 118 124 130 France -------------------- . 729 3.978 3.820 2.863 3.784 4.705 Germany ----------------- 67. 607 10.229 45.072 22.118 29.457 36.795 Great Britain and Ireland- 77.342 62. 558 51.562 91.210 121. 581 151.951 Greece -------------------- 3.1063 135 2. 042 636 815 993 -J ungary ------------------ 5.747 588 3.832 1.359 1.779 2.193 Iceland -------------------- 75 136 100 112 116 120 Italy 42.057 3.989 28.038 8.977 7.937 0.895 Latvia. _. ------------------ 1. 540 217 1. 026 353 437 522 Lithuania ---------------- 2.622 402 1.752 044 692 840 Luxemburg ---------------- 97 158 1X0 176 202 228 Netherlands -------------- 3. 602 1. 737 2.404 2. 770 3.659 4. 549 Norway ------------------ 12.205 6.553 8.134 2.533 3.344 4.155 Poland ------------------- 30.979 8.072 20.652 4.610 6.113 7. 616 Portugal ------------------ 2. 465 574 1.644 375 467 558 Rumania ------------------ 7.419 731 4.946 487 615 743 Russia -------------------- 24. 105 1.892 16. 270 4.102 5.436 6. 770 Spain --------------------- 12 224 608 241 288 335 Sweden ------------------- 20. 142 9.661 13. 362 3.807 5.042 6.277 Switzerland --------------- 3.752 2.181 2.502 881 1.141 1.402 Yugoslavia ---------------8 6.426 835 4.284 702 902 3.102 Other Europe ------------- 86 225 100 133 144 155 Palestine ------------------ 57 101 100 110 113 117 Syria ---------------------- 882 112 58 262 316 370 Turkey ------------------- 2. 654 123 1. 770 215 253 291 Other Asia --_------------- 02 145 100 122 129 137 Africa --------------------- 104 138 100 120 126 133 Egypt --------------------- 18 100 100 104 105 106 Atlantic islands ----------- 121 141 100 234 278 323 Australia ------------------ 27 220 196 148 164 180 New Zealand ------------- 80 167 100 120 127 134 Japan -------------------- () (1) 1.443 280 340 400 Total -------------- 357. 801 154.083 { 240.459 154.200 204.200 254. 200 No quota. The quotas under the present law. the Johnson bill. and the Senate bill are based on a percentage of the foreign born in this country according to whichever census is used. No consideration is given to the nativeborn Americans in determining these quotas. " Under the "national origins" method shown in the fourth. fifth. and sixth columns of the table above tile quota is based not only on tie number of foreign born in this country according to the census of 1920 but also is based on the number of native born in the country according to this census. By this method consideration is given to everyone in the country. whether American born or foreign born. This is the only method in determining the quota that counts Americans. This method preserves the present status quo amongst the various nationalities that have made tip our distinctly American race.