My authority for these figures. Mr. President. is the annual report for 1926 of the Commissioner General of Immigration. and the figures are found at page 168 of that report. Finding the total for that 70year period. it is not difficult to ascertain what the average immigration from those countries was during that 70year period. In the case of England. Scotland. and Wales we find that the average was 39.380. and under the 1890 quota basis. which is now in effect and which rests upon the number of. foreign born from a given country who were found in the United States according to the census of 1890. we find that those countries are entitled under the present immigration law to 34.007. or about 5.000 less than their average for the 70year period. Then. considering Belgium. we find that her 70year average was 628. and that she is entitled to a few less than that number under the 1890 basisshe is entitled to 512. In the case of Italy. we find that Italy sent an average of 5.551 for that 70year period. and under the basis now in effect that country is entitled to 3.845 immigrants each year. As to Russia. we find that that country sent an average of 3.663 to us each year. and that under the present basis of quotas. which I declare is fairer than the nationalorigins basis. she is entitled to 2.248. less by quite a considerable number than that country had sent on theaverage. Greece sent us an average during that 70 years of 39. yet under the present basis of immigration quotas we are letting her have 100 in an arbitrary manner. Germany sent us during that.70year period an average of 64.359 a year. while on the present basis she is sending us less than that number--only 51.227. If the. 1890 basis discriminates against any people. then the discrimination is against Germany rather than England. and yet we do not find any discontent noticeable at this time with the 1890 basis.
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