May the time soon come when this maxim will be again proved and another enslaved people lose their patience and demand their rights. With your permission. I should like to discuss for a few minutes the proposed methods of making the quota law effective on the Western Hemisphere. One plan would be to apply the principle of the nationalorigins plan. which is the plan under which Immigration from Europe is now controlled. No bill seeking to invoke this plan has been introduced. so far as I know. Another plan is that set forth in the Box bill. This bill fixes a maximum total figure of 50.000 for all countries of the Western Hemisphere and divides this number between immigrants who speak English habitually and those who do not. To those who do not speak English habitually a quota of 3 per cent of the average immigration from that country for the past five years was given. For instance. if the average immigation from Canada for the last five years is 45.000. then a quota of 1.350 would be allowed to the nonEnglishspeaking immigrants from Canada. The number to be allowed to the Englishspeaking immigrants will be the remainder of the 50.000 basic quota. Under this plan it is expected that Canada would get a large portion of the quota. Mexico would get about 2.500.
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