Mr. Speaker. while there were many good features in the immigration law that was passed by Congress in 1924. the socalled nationalorigin provision for quota basis that will go into effect on July 1. 1927. if not repealed before that time. has met with a widespread protest. Many bills have been introduced in this Congress for its repeal and for the final and permanent establishment of the 1890 census is quota basis. the quota basis now in effect. Among such bills introduced. was also H. R. 12854. introduced by me. My bill differs somewhat from the majority of such bills. in so far as I want to pernminently establish the 1890 census as a basis. but under the provisions of my bill tile total quota is limited to 150.000 immigrants per year. I think that we should pass a law along these lines. because we should have the right to say how many immigrants we wish to enter our country from time to time. sometimes we may need more and other times less. and if a quota basis is established as a permanent policy it will cause less friction to either raise or lower the total quota than to scrap out whether or not another basis should be adopted that will give us a larger or smaller total quota. We can. of course. raise or lower the percentage of any given census. but if we raise or lower the percentage under any given census year the net result will not be definite. The Committee on Immigration have held hearings during this session. to which authors of the different bills were promised an invitation for the purpose of explaining their bills. The committee heard the Government experts that had made the investigations and calculations upon which the President must make his proclamation as to what the quotas for the different countries shall be under the nationalorigins provision. The committee also heard Mr.
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