I listened to the argument made a moment ago about the matter of socalled discrimination because this measure gives India an allotment of only 100. I think the gentleman from California went far afield when he said in effect it would still be discrimination even though we passed this law and let 100 of these natives of India come in because there are about 400.000.000 of them in India now and 100 does not bear a right and proper relationship to 400.000.000. I want to remind my friend from California that our quota system of immigrants from the various nations is not based on a percentage of population in all the other countries. When the quota system was adopted. it was my understanding that it was on the basis of the percentage of those people from those other countries residing in our country in the year 1890. It happens that we did not have many Hindus or Chinese at that time. Therefore. it is not because there are 400.000.000 in India or 600.000.000 Chinese that we set this low figure.
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