Let me first dispose of the quota. It is a perfectly arbitrary means of ascertainment which. in my opinion. the House committee has taken. It has taken one departing American to any of the various countries that are described in* the bill. and has given such country four of that particular hationality who may be Permitted to come in as immigrants. One of the reasons that actuated them in doing that was that that number could be definitely ascertained. because as to those Americans who hav6 gone into other countries there are accurate figures. That is the mode by which they fix these quotas. The reason. I assume. I say to the Senator from Washington. why the House bill includes Canada and Newfoundland and gives to Canada a very much laiger number than perhaps will be needed for a long period to come is the tleory "that has been announced here so often of the lack of desire in an immigration bill to be discriminatory or offensive. So all the Western Hemisphere has been included by the House in this measure.
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