Obviously. if the limited number that was to be admitted was to be apportioned fairly. so much nore likely was our restrictive policy to continue. Equally obviously if we divided it unfairly in the aggregate. then so much greater was the danger that our restrictive policy could not last. There had to be an absence of discrimination in order to insure that the immigration law would last. We sought then to find some method by which discrimiiation could be avoided. We took the foreign born of 1890 as a temporary expedient only. but after lengthy debate we decided that we would base the quota ultimately on the national origins of the entire population of the United States in the very latest census. which was 1920. If that can be done. I understand the Senator from North Dakota to admit that that is highly fair. that it is not open to criticism if it can be done.
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