President. I offered the amendment eliminating from the amendment of the Senator from South Dakota the provision that dbolished the nationalorigins plan. His amendment as all entirety had been based on the idea that national origins should be eliminated and that we would base immigration on the census of 1890. providing for 1 per cent of the foreigners as disclosed by that census. That would amount to about 120.000 people. When the part of the amendment that abolished the nationalorigins plan was eliminated. all that was left of the Senators anendment was the provision of 1 per cent. which had been reduced by the amendment of the Senator from Georgia to 1 per cent. of the foreigners disclosed by the census of 1890. In other words. it amended that act. To make it clear and carry out the will of the Senate as expressed in the votes which have been taken. the Senator from Georgia has offered an amendment which would simply change section 11. subdivision (b). which provides that there shall be admitted 150.000 immigrants a year based on the percentage of nationalities disclosed by the various censuses and information furnished. All this amendment does is to take subdivision (b) of section 11 of the bill. in connection with the immigration law known as the national origins law. and substitute in that law for 150.000. which is the number provided by law. 120.000 for three years. then. after the three years. 81.000. which is what the Senate has already agreed to. It would carry out tile will of the Senate entirely. except after three years. It was afterwards disclosed that families abroad had made arrangements to come to the United States. they had sold their property. they had gotten tickets. and arrangements had been made in the belief that the 150.000 quota would extend for two or three years.
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