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Mr. Speaker. it seems to me that the only in- Snc. 11. (b) The annual quota of any nationalily for the fiscal year terest taken so far by the Members on this floor Is in the Japanese beginning July 1. 1.)27. and for each year thereafter. shall be a numquestion. They do not care much about what was inserted in ber which bears the same ratio to 150.000 as the number of Inhabitants the provisions of the conference report after the bill left this in continental United states in 1020 having tlat national origin (ascer* House. and if some of my good friends with whom I do not tained as hereinata provided in this section) bears to the number agree on this whole immigration policy would only think of of inhabitants in continental United States in 1920. but the minimum other nationals as much as they think of the Japanese proposl- quota of any nationality shall be 100. Both the Director of the Census. Mr. Steuart. and Doctor Hill. 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 scheme 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 give the various countries the following totals of permissible immigration as shown by the table: Quotas 2 per cent National 2rcet origins of 1890 Present with de the law 150.000 minimum limit of 100 proviso Albania --------------------------------------- 288 100 100 Armenia ------------------------------------- rI 100 100 Austria -------------------------------------- 7.342 090 1.840 Belgium ------------------------------------- 1.563 509 260 Bulgaria ------------------------------------- 302 100 100 Czechoslovakia ------------------------------ 14.357 1.873 1.320 Danzig --------------------------------------- 301 223 100 Denmark --------------------------------- 5.61 2.782 1.092 Esthonia ------------------------------- --- -1.348 102 221 Finland ------------------------------------- 3.921 145 498 Flume ---------------------------------- 71 100 100 France --------------------------------- 5.729 3.878 2. 703 Germany ------- ------------------------ 67.607 t0. 129 22. 018 Great Britain and Ireland ----------------- 77. 342 62.458 91.111 Greece ------------------------------------ 3.063 100 536 Hungary ----------------------------------. t 747 488 1.259 Iceland ------------------------------------ 75 100 100 Italy ---------------------------------------- 42.057 3.889 5. 78 Latvia --------------------------------- 1.540 117 253 Lithuania ------------------------------ 2.622 302 444 Luxemburg ---------------------------------- 97 100 300 Netherlands --------------------------------- 3.602 . 637 2.669 Norway ------------------------------------- 12.205 6.453 2.433 Poland -------------------------------- ------ 30. 979 8.872 4. 509 Portugal.....--------------------------------- 2.465 474 275 Rumania ------------------------------------ 7.419 631 388 Russia --------------------------------------- 24.405 1.792 4.002 Spain ---------------------------------------- 912 124 141 Sweden -------------------------------------- 20.042 0.561 8.707 Switzerland ---------------------------------- 3.752 2.081 781 Yugoslavia ---------------------------------- 6 426 735 602 Other Europe ----------- --------------------- 86 125 100 Palestine ------------------------------------ 57 100 100 Syria ---------------------------------------- 882 100 162 T urkey -----------------.. . . . . . . ..-- - - - - 2.654 13 119 Other Asia ..------------------------------ 92 100 100 Africa ---------------------------------- 104 100 100 Egypt ---------------------------------- 18 100 100 Atlantic Islands ------------------------------ 121 100 134 Australia --------------------------------- -- 279 120 100 New Zealand ----------------------------- --- 80 100 100 Total ................................... 30 5. 161.990 150.003 Now I call your attention to the quota of Great Britain. You will find in the schedule the present quota of 3 per cent based on the 1910 census for Great Britain would be 77.342. The proposed 2 per cent of the 1890 census debated by the House would give Great Britain 62.458.