Hill. of the Census Bureau. who is the chief statistician and the most experienced expert in that bureau. This is what he said: He was asked: What. in your opinion. Is the fairest way to all of te nationalities involved of calculating the distribution of the aggregate Quota of immigration that Congress sees fit to admit? Doctor Hill answered: I will say * * * tlat no proposition has been brought to my attention that seems to me fairer than this one of national origin. There seems. indeed. to me to be a rather marked absence of alternative proposals. except the 1890 basis. that is about the only alternative I have lad brought to my attention as against the nationnaorlgin plan.
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