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Without objection. it is so ordered. The tables are as follows: National origins and American immigration 1890. foreign born National origins basis I basis Northwest Europe: Per cent Per cent Belgium --------------------------------- 512 0.31 1.328 0.86 Denmark -------------------------------- 2. 789 1.69 1. 234 .80 France ----------------------------------- 3.954 2.40 3.308 2. 15 Germany -------------- ------ ------- 51.227 31.12 24.908 16.21 England. Scotland. Wales. and North Ireland ----.----------------.-------------- 34. 007 20. 65 65. 894 42.89 Irish Free State -----------.-------------- 28.567 17.37 17. 427 11.34 Netherlands ------_--------------------- 1.648 1. 00 3.083 2.00 Norway ---------------------------------- 6. 453 3.92 2. 403 1. 56 Sweden ---------------------------------- 9. 561 5.80 3. 399 2. 21 Switzerland --------------.-------------- 2.081 1.26 1.614 1.05 Other northwest Europe ------------------- 200 .12 200 .13 Total --------------.----------------- 140. 999 85.6 124. 798 81.20 Southeast Europe: Austria ---------------------------------- 785 .47 1.639 1.06 Czechoslovakia ------------------------ 3.073 1.86 2.726 1.77 Finland --------------------------- ----- 471 .28 568 .36 Greece ----------------------------------- 100 .06 312 .20 Hungary -------------------------------- 473 .28 1.181 .76 Italy -------------.--------.-------------- 3.845 2. 33 5.989 3.89 Lithuania -------------------------------- 344 .20 492 .32 Poland -----------------------------------5. 982 3.63 6. 090 3. 956 Portugal --------------------------------- 0 03 .30 457 .29 Rumania --------------------------------- 603 .36 311 .20 Russia ----------------------------------- 2.248 1.36 3.540 2.30 Yugoslavia_- ------.---------------------- 671 .40 739 .48 Other southeast Europe ----------------- 1.225 .74 1.385 .90 Total ---------------------------------- 20. 323 12. 30 .25. 429 16. 50 Asia ------------------------------------------ 1.624 .99 1 .78 1.14 Africa ---------------------------------------- 1.200 .72 . 200 .78 Australasia ----------------------------------- 521 .31 500 .32 Grand total -------------------------- 164. 667 -------- 153. 685 .... I Each country gets 2 per cent of those born in that country counted in the 1890 census. These quotas. therefore. are based on 8.000.000 people in 1890. 2 Based on the entire white population in 1920. native and foreign born alike. derived from the quota couqitries. 89.332.158 in all. Each country gets such proportion of 150.000 immigrants as it contributed to the total white population from quota countries. 89.332.158.