Mr. Speaker. under leave granted me to extend my remarks. I desire to make a statement explaining the status of the socalled "national origins provision" of the immigration act of 1924. Many Members of the House. have received communications in recent weeks indicating a belief on the part of citizens that a bill to alter the existing quota arrangement has been under consideration in the Committee on immigration and Naturalization. Such is not the case. The subject matter to which correspondents have referred is the provision in the immigration act of 1924. section 11. by which a new quota basis may become effective July 1. 1927. The only bills relating to the subject pending in the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization during the present session are measures to repeal this provision and continue in effect the existing quota arrangement. As is well known. immigration quotas at present are fixed upon the basis of 2 per cent of the number of foreignborn individuals resident in continental United States as determined by the United States census of 1890. the minimum quota being 100. On this basis the total of all quotas is 164.667. Under the socalled "national origins provision " the total of all quotas would be set at 150.000. and this number would be allocated. not according to the number of foreignborn persons resident in the country. but upon the basis of the proportionate numerical strength of nationalities among the whole population of the United States. The census of 1920 would be used. the national origins of all the people would be calculated. and. for example. if it should be found that a particular nationality contributed onetenth of the whole population. that nationality would have onetenth of the total quota. or 15.000. I quote the appropriate subdivisions of section 11 of the immigration act of 1924. as follows:
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