It is clear what the contention of the Senator from Georgia is. The Senator from Georgia insists that. whereas the census is now being taken. the Norbeck amendment goes and places the immigration quota on the census taken in 1890. The Senator from Georgia says that the present law has been put in effect after a prolonged debate and has been operating for three months. we do not as yet know the effect of it. and yet it is now proposed to abolish the plan provided for in the present law and go back to the census of 1890. The contention of the Senator from Georgia is that if we are going to abolish the nationalorigins plan we ought to wait until the new census shall have been taken. and in the meantime see what develops and continue the present system. giving it a trial as it is now operating. That is what I understand from the remarks of the Senator from Georgia. In other words. while a census is being taken. we should not go back to a census 40 years old and base immigration on that census. If it is desired to make a change in the nationalorigins plan. which has been in operation for only three months. now is not the time to do it. but the thing to do. as the Senator from Georgia contends. is to defeat that provision of the Norbeck amendment and let us see what the nationalorigins plan will do.
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