That is my understanding of the attitude of a great many Members of the Senate who were here in 1924 and who are still here. I have said the nationalorigins basis is inaccurate. not practicable. unfair. and not understandable. and I shall now proceed to what I believe is a fair demonstration of the unfairness and of the inaccuracy of that basis. In keeping with the statement made by the Senator from Minnesota which I have just read. the 1790 records are prime factors in immigration quotas under the nationalorigins plan. It must be here called to the attention of the Senate that while this Is the case. while the 1790 records are basic records in building nationalorigins quotas. many of these records were destroyed in the War of 1812 with Great Britain. The census records taken In 1790 in many of the States were then destroyed.
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