Mr. Hoover. as Secretary of Commerce. with the Secretary of State. Mr. Kellogg. and the Secretary of Labor. Mr. Davis. was charged specifically with the duty of determining the figures or numerical calculations which were to form the basis for immigration quotas upon the theory of national origins. In fact. the Bureau of the Census in his own department performed the greater part of the work and necessarily conferred with him in reaching its conclusions. No better authority on the subject can be conceived than Mr. Hoover himself. The fundamental difficulty about this matter Is that the census of 1790 gave no information whatever as to the national origins of the inhabitants of the Colonies. and therefore advocates of the nationalorigins plan have been forced to try to determine the origins of those inhabitants by the names of the people at that time.
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