Speech #680108998

Steuart. Bnd Doctor Hill. his first assistant. who appeared before the managers. declared that they would be obliged to adopt arbitrary methods to arrive at the proper basis upon which allocation will be based. This provision. which is to go into effect July 1. 1927. limits the number of European Immigrants to 150.000 annually. and from tabulations prepared by the proponents of this schele and utilized on the floor of the House by the gentleman from Colorado and In the conference meeting by the Senator from Pennsylvania. reduced to actual understandable figures. based upon the limitation of 150.000. will allow the vtarious countries approximately the number indicated in the last column. Quotas 2 per cent National f1890 origins Nationality or country Present 0 nder the Prsn ith 50000 law minimum 1l.000 of10 limit Of 100 proviso Albania -------------------------------------- 288 100 100 Armenia ------------.----------------------- 230 100 100 Austria -------------.--------------------- 7.342 990 3.840 Belgium --- --------------------------------- 1.563 50q 260 Bulgaria ----------------------------------... 802 100 100 Czechoslovakia --------------------------- 14. 357 1.873 1.320 Danzig --------------------------------------- 301 223 100 Denmark ------------------------------------ 5.619 2.782 1.002 Esthonia ------------------------------------- 1.348 102 221 Finland -------------------------------------- . 921 145 498 Fiume ------------------------------------.... 71 109 t00 France ........................................ 6.729 1.878 2.763 Germany ------------------------------------ 67.607 50. 129 22.018 Great Britain and Ireland ..................... 77. 342 62.458 91.111 Greece -------------------.----------------- 3. 03 100 530 ITungary ...................................... 5.747 488 1. 259 Iceland -----------------------------------... 75 100 100 Italy ----------------------------------------- 42.057 8.580 6.878 Latvia . ----------------------------------- 1.540 117 253 Lithuania ------------------------------------ 2.622 302 444 Luxemburg .................................. 97 100 100 Netherlands --------------------------------- 3. 602 1.637 2.669 Norway ....................................... 12.205 6. 45�13 2.432 Poland ---------.............................. 0.979 8. 872 4. 509 Portugal ...................................... 2.465 474 275 Rumania ..................................... 7.419 631 386 B ussia -------------------------------------- 24.405 1.792 4.002 Spain ------------------------------------- 912 121 141 Sweden -------------------------------------- 2 0.042 9.561 3.707 Switzerland ---------------------------------- 3. 752 2.081 781 Yugoslavia ----------------------------------- 6. 426 735 602 Other Europe ---.----------------------------- 86 125 100 Palestine ----------------------------------- 57 100 100 Syria-------------------------------------82 100 162 rkey ---------------------------------- 2.654 109 119 Other Asia -------------------------------- 0 2 100 100 Africa ----------------------- --------- - 104 100 30D Egypt ------------------------------------- 1 1001 100 Atlantic Islands-. -------------------------- 121 101) 134 Australia --------------------------------- -279 12 10 New Zealand -------------------------------- 0 10D 00 Japan ---------------------------------------------------- ---------............. Total ---------------------------------- 357.801 161. 0W) 150.903 Mr. Speaker. on exanlination of thle above table it will be noticed that the percentage of immigration from Great Britain will be increased to such an extent that it will receive over threefiftlis of the total anti all the balance of Europe the remaining. less than twofifths. This scheme will uot only discriminate against the countries that I have formerly designatedsuch as Czechoslovakia. Yugosltvia.