The total number that could come into this country under the amendment would be from the established quota countries 150.000. and front the Western Hemisphere 75.000 more. or 225.000 in all. Mr. President. during all the time in which this great country has struggled with the problem of immigration we have had few regulations. the. mere restriction of. numbers came to be the first serious effort we made at regulation. We used to enrich the shipping companies by letting the captains and officers of shipping companies themselves be the censors upon the character of the immigration. and as late as 1921 there came into this country nearly 900.000 aliens in one year. Under the present law the number has been reduced to 150.000. under my proposal we would take possession of the situation and make it what the everchanging condition of tmis country decrees that it should be. Mr. President. every country that has taken scientific control of its immigration has done this thing. England does it in the case of immigration. and she does it moreover in the case of emigration. because emigration is a greater problem in England than is immigration. So. at an expense of $15.000.000 a year. England carries on a constant activity in the matter of selectingand training for emigration. She chooses with great care the emigrants who shall go out of the mother country to British colonies. she coordinates with all of the British colonies. and I fear on many occasions those which are left for us are the culls after England and her colonies have gone through the process of selecting emigration for the colonies. If Great Britain successfully does this in reference to emigration. she can also do it. and so can we. in reference to immigration.
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