Mr. President. a word as to the national origins. It was obvious that any method of basing quotas on the number of foreign born here at any time was bound to be unfair to the native born. Logically. then. the thing to do was to find out. if we could. what system of quotas would. as nearly as possible. reflect the whole population of the United States. taking into account both native born and foreign born in the calculation of those quotas. It was not. as my friend from Missouri calls it. an idiotic thing to do. It was based upon a report made in 1910 by the Census Bureau. in which they had undertaken to state the racial composition of the United States.
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