Porto Rico. and the other islands of the Caribbean Sealumped together. from which there were 23.556 in the United States in 1890. One and onehalf per cent of that number would be 348 from the West Indies. Common sense dictates that. with the statistics available from the census of 1890. Congress can not lay down quotas for the West Indies and Latin America. The House committee thereore had good reason to provide that the number coming from :he West Indies and from Central and South America should be equivalent to the nuamber- of citizens of each country who obained visas on their passports to enter the United States last year.