Speaker. ladies and gentlemen of the House. it shall be my purpose to give a brief resum6 of the development of the nationalorigins question now that it is almost sure to become operative on July 1. 1929. This sense of assurance comes from the fact that the Senate on June 13. 1929. defeated the Nye resolution by a vote of 43 to 37. In 1924 Congress passed the quota law which restricted immigration from all European countries to a definite number. So that each country might have its proportionate share quotas were fixed upon a basis of population. Students of the immigration question had for long sought some satisfactory basis upon which quotas might be established. A plan was finally worked out that appealed toCongress. and it was adopted. The plan was to appoint a committee of the most learned census men in our country and have this committee study the question with the aim of finding out what proportion of the American blood stream had been contributed by the people of the various countries.
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