What does the resolution propose to do? It proposes to postpone the law of 1924 which was passed with all the formality and solemnity of the passage of any other law. I refer to that provision of the immigration bill of 1924 which has to do with the establishment of the quotas under which immigrants come to this country. That law provided two methods by which the quota inight be established. One was the census of 1890 and the other was what was called a nationalorigins provision. Why was the census of 1890 selected? Purely as a matter of expediency at the time. The immigration act of 1924 marked a real epoch in the enactment of immigration legislation. It was a real turning point. It was the establishment of a quota law. No one can claim that the figures we had at that period were of sufclent accuracy to establish a permanent quota. They accepted the 1890 census in the act of 1924.
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