What the 1890 census quotalimit system is. Third. The relation of the national origins and 1890 census quotalimit system to a national policy of restricted immigration. and Fourth. Reasons for the Immigration Committees recommendation. Speaking of the nationalorigins quota basis the report states: The technical methods employed to accomplish this [quota allotment based on national origins] are from the laymans viewpoint complicated and involve difficulties. which in the judgment of the immigration committee [of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States] have not yet been solved. The committee further says: The difficulty is that the nationalorigins plan requires apparently the use of a very fine tool to try to accomplish what can only at best be a very rough judgment of the relative importance of European seed stocks in our present white population. In view also of the presentation for the REcomn of various petitions and memorials from patriotic societies favoring the maintenance of the nationalorigins provision of the immigration law. I present a communication. similar to others received. from the Tenth District Council of the American Legion. district of Massachusetts. representing 32 posts. located in southeastern Massachusetts. Mr. President. I ask that the letter of the president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America. the report of the immigration committee of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America. and the communication from representatives of the American Legion of southeastern of my remarks.
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