This is from House Report No. 2029 of the Committee on Immigration of the Sixtyninth Congress: The committee having considered the text of Senate Joint Resolution 152. to postpone for one year the going into effect of the national origins provision of the immigration act of 1924. is of the opinion that at the end of one year from July 1. 1927. the same uncertainty as to the results of regulating immigration by means of the "national origins " plan will continue to exist. That the Secretaries of State. Commerce. and of Labor will have little. if any more. positive evidence on which to base quota findings than at present. That it seems far better to have immigration quotas for the purposes of restriction fixed In such a manner as to be easily explained and easily understood by all. That the committee is of the opinion that the United States. having started on a policy of numerical restriction. the principle of which is well understood. that little will be gained by changing the method.
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