R. 6540. referred to by Mr. Trevor above. provides for a quota based on 2 per cent of the census of 1890. In a speech at the Hotel Astor March 25. 1924. before the Economic Club. Hon. Henry 1. Curran. commissioner of immigration at Ellis " If we drop the 1910 measure and take up the 1890 measure. we come. with a few minor differences in the case of individual nations. to a measure that almost exactly gives each part of Europe that to which it is entitled. No more and no less. That is why I am for the 1890 measure.
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