Doctor HILL. We worked It out as carefully as we could. In making the 1890 allocation. as there was not very much time for careful study. the committee adopted rather arbitrarily the assumption that the Immigration from the original country had been spread evenly through the parent countrysay that 10 per cent of the population had been transferred from one country to another. it was assumed that the transfer took with it 10 per cent of the immigration. That was the assumption we made in arriving at the quotas on the 1890 basis. (Senate hearings. 1928. pp. 11 and 12.) I call your attention to the statement of Doctor Hill. last above quoted. as to the estimates and uncertainties involved in the computation of the quotas based on the census of 1890. It may be that the suggestion of Senator Willis that. because of the elements mentioned. and.
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