This was a great improvement. as was also. in ous opinion. the reduction of the total from 355.000 to 164.667. which was effected by making the allowance 2 per cent instead of 3 per cent of the accepted census base. But although the proportion was accurate as between the two groups of countries it was not accurate at all as between countries within those groups. and the purpose of providing for the nationalorigins method of computation on a total of 150.000 instead of 164.617 was to extend the principle of equality of treatment throughout each group as soon as that base could ibe fully worked out by the Bureau of the Census. Germa mys very great relative advantage on the 1890 base will appear from the following figures: Total quota immigration (2 per cent of 1890). 164.667. Quota of Great Britain and Ireland and Irish Free State. 52.574. or 31.93 per cent. Quota of Germany. 51.227. or 31.19 per cent.
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