Speech #820211921

Without objection. it is so ordered. The material referred to is as follows: TABLE II.-Total immigration to United States. 18201948 [From 1820 to 1867 figures represent alien passengers arrived. 1868 to 1891. inclusive. and 1895 to 1897. inclusive. immigrant aliens arrived. 1892 to 1894. inclusive. and from 1898 to the present time immigrant aliens admitted.] Number of Year persons 182019471 --------------------- 38. 717. 408 1820 ------------------------------8.385 182130 ------------------ 143.439 1821 ---------------------------- 9.127 1822 ---------------------------- 6.911 1823 ---------------------------- 6. 354 1824 ---------------------------- 7.912 1825 --------------------------- 10. 199 1826 ---------------------------- 10.837 1827 --------------------------- 18. 875 1828 --------------------------- 27.382 1829 --------------------------- 22. 520 1830 --------------------------- 23.322 18314C ------------------- 599. 125 1831 --------------------------- 22.633 1832 --------------------------- 60.482 1833 --------------------------- 58.640 1834 --------------------------- 65.365 1835 ---------------------------- 45.374 1836 ---------------------------- 76. 242 1837 ---------------------------- 79.340 1838 ---------------------------- 8.914 1839 --------------------------- 68. 069 1840 --------------------------- 84. 066 184150 ----------------- 713.251 1841 ---------------------------- 80.289 1842 --------------------------- 104. 565 1843 ---------------------------- 52.496 1844 ---------------------------- 78. 615 1845 ---------------------------- 114. 371 1846 --------------------------- 154 416 1847 --------------------------- 234. 968 1848 --------------------------- 226. 527 1849 --------------------------- 297. 024 1850 --------------------------- 369.980 185160 ------------------2. 598. 214 1851 --------------------------- 379.466 1852 --------------------------- 371. 603 1853 ---------------------------- 68. 645 1854 ---------------------------- 427.833 1855 ---------------------------- 200. 877 1856 ---------------------------- 200. 436 1857 --------------------------- 251. 306 1858 ----------------------------123. 126 1859 --------------------------- 121.282 1860 --------------------------- 153.640 186170 ------------------ 2.314.824 1861 --------------------------- 91.918 1862 --------------------------- 91.985 1863 --------------------------- 176.282 1864 --------------------------- 193.418 1865 --------------------------- 248.120 1866 --------------------------- 318.568 1867 --------------------------- 315.722 1868 --------------------------- 138.840 1869 --------------------------- 352. 768 1870 --------------------------- 387. 203 I Data are for fiscal years ended June 30. except 1820 to 1831. Inclusive. and 1844 to 1849. Inclusive. fiscal years ended September 30. 1833 to 1842. inclusive. and 1851 to 1867. inclusive. years ended December 31. 1832 covers 15 months ended December 31. 1843. 9 months ended September 30. 1850. 15 months ended December 31. and 1866. 6 months ended June 30. TABLE II.-Total immigration to United States. 18201948--Continued Number of Year persons 187180 ------------------- 2.812.191 1871 --------------------------- 321.350 1872 --------------------------- 404.806 1873 --------------------------- 459. 803 1874 ---------------------------- 313.339 1875 --------------------------- 227498 1876 -------------------------- - 169.986 1877 --------------------------- 141.857 1878 ---------------------------- 138.469 1879 --------------------------- 177. 826 1880 ----------------------------457.257 188190 ------------------ 5.246.613 1881 ---------------------------- 669.431 1882 ------------------------- - 788. 992 1883 ...603.322 1884 ---------------------------- 518. 592 1885 ...... ...... ...... ...... ---- 395.346 1886 ---------------------------- 334.203 1887 ---------------------------- 490.109 1888 ---------------------------- 546.889 1889 ---------------------------- 444.427 1890 ---------------------------- 455.302 18911900 ----------------- 3.687.564 1891 ---------------------------- 560.319 1892 ---------------------------- 579.663 1893 ---------------------------- 439.730 1894 ---------------------------- 285.631 1895 ---------------------------- 258.536 1896 ---------------------------- 343.267 1897 ---------------------------- 230.832 1898 ---------------------------- 229.299 1899 ---------------------------- 311.715 1900 ---------------------------- 448.572 19011910 -----------------8.795.386 1901 ---------------------------- 487.918 1902 ---------------------------- 648.743 1903 ---------------------------- 857. 046 1904 ---------------------------- 812.870 1905 ---------------------------- 1.026.499 1906 ---------------------------- 1.100.735 1907 ---------------------------- 1.285.349 1908 ---------------------------- 782.870 1909 ---------------------------- 751.786 1910 ---------------------------- 1.041.570 19111920 ----------------- 5.735.811 1911 ---------------------------- 878.587 1912 ---------------------------- 838.172 1913 ---------------------------- 1.197.892 1914 ---------------------------- 1.218.480 1915 ---------------------------- 326.700 1916 ---------------------------- 298.826 1917 ---------------------------- 295.403 1918 ---------------------------- 110.618 1919 ---------------------------- 141.132 1920 ---------------------------- 430.001 19211930 ----------------- 4.107.209 1921 ---------------------------- 805.228 1922 ---------------------------- 309.556 1923 ---------------------------- 522. 919 1924 ---------------------------- 706.896 1925 ---------------------------- 294.314 1926 --------------------------- 304.488 1927- - .......------------ 335. 175 1928 ---------------------------- 807255 1929 ---------------------------- 279.678 1930 ---------------------------- 241.700 19311940 ----------------- 528.431 1931 ---------------------------- 97.139 1932 ---------------------------- 85.576 1933 ---------------------------- 23.068 1934 ---------------------------- 29.470 1935 ---------------------------- 34956 1936 ---------------------------- 36.329 TABLE II.-Total immigration to United States. 18201948Continued Number of Year persons 1937 ---------------------------- 50.244 1938 ---------------------------- 67.895 1939 ---------------------------- 82.998 1940 ---------------------------- 70. 756 19411948 ----------------- 597.535 1941 ---------------------------- 51.776 1942 ---------------------------- 28.781 1943 ---------------------------- 23.725 1944 ---------------------------- 28.551 1945 ---------------------------- 38.119 1946 ---------------------------- 108.721 1947 ---------------------------- 147.292 1948 ---------------------------- 170.570 Source: U. S. Immigration and Naturaliza. tion Service. annual reports. TABLE 111.-Immigration from northern and western Europe compared to immigration from southern and eastern Europe. 18201946. by decades Decades 182030 -------------------183140 -------------------1841- 0 -------------------185160 -----------------186170 ................... 187180 -------------------188190 -------------------18911000 ----------------190110 ................... 191120 ................... 192130 -----------..-...... 193140 ................... 194146 ................... Northern and western Europe 103.119 489. 739 1 592.062 2.431.336 2.031.642 2.070.373 3. 778. 633 1.643. 492 1.010.035 997. 418 1.284.023 104. 779 Southern and eastern Europe 3.389 5. 949 5. 439 21.324 33. 628 201.889 058. 413 1. 915. 486 4. 225.081 3.379.126 1.193. 830 186. 589 48. 110 Source: U. S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. Monthly Review December 1944 for years up to 1930. Later data based on statistics presented in Monthly Review. 1946 and 1947. TABLE IVComparison of quotas allotted to selected individual countries under 3 dif. ferent versions of the quota system 1 1921 1924 1929act3 act2I napercent percent tional 1910 1890 origins Total ---------------------- 357. 803 164. 667 153. 714 Asia ------------------- 492 1.424 1.423 Africa and Oceania ----- 359 1.821 1.800 Europe --------------56 952 161.422 150. 491 Northern and western Europe: Belgium --------------- 1.563 512 1.304 Denmark - ------------.619 2. 789 1.181 France ---------------- 5.729 3.954 3.086 Germany --------- - 67. 607 51.227 25. 957 Great Britain and Northern Ireland... 77.342 34.007 65. 721 Irish Free State ..------- ) 28. 567 17.853 Netherlands ------------ 3.607 1.648 3.153 Norway -------------- 12. 202 6.43 2. 377 Sweden ---------------- 20.042 9. 561 3.314 Switzerland ----------- 3.752 2.081 1.707 Total northern and western Europe..--- 197. 630 140. 999 127 266 Southern and eastern Europe: Austria ---------------- 7.342 785 1.413 Czechoslovakia - 3------- 14.357 3.073 2.S74 Greece ---------------- 3.003 100 307 Hungary --------------- &. 747 473 869 Italy ------------------ 42.057 3.845 %802 Poland ---------------- 30. 977 5. 982 6.524 Portugal -------------- 2. 465 503 440 Rumania ------------- 7..419 603 295 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics -------- 24. 405 2. 248 2. 784 Turkey ----------------2. 654 100 226 Yugoslavia- . 6.426 671 845 Total southern and eastern Europe 15.285 20.423 23.235 I Bred on A. M4. CarrSaunders. World Population (1936). p. 103. 2 With Great Britain and Northern Ireland. TAmE V.-Annual quotas allotted and quota immigrants admitted. by quota country or region: 1 Years ended June 30. 1930 to 1951 Quota immigrants admitted Quota country or region Annual 1930 1932 1602 1933 1934 1939 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 quotas 2! All countries--------------- 154.206 141.497 54.118 12.983 8.220 12.453 17.267 18.675 27.762 42.494 62.402 51.997 36.220 14.597 9.045 9.394 11.623 29.095 Europe --------------------------- - .501 140.064 53.204 12.410 7.22 12.125 16.820 18.244 27.235 41.637 61.53k 51.141 6 14.147 8.714 8.983 11.042 _27L839 Northern and Westerf Europe -.-. 125. 853 116.062 38.706 6.368 3.831 6.839 8.849 10.102 16.481 25.383 41.135 34.313 23.748 8.934 4.608 4.793 7.30 16.416 Belgium --------------------- 1.304 1.118 525 117 60 106 175 190 215 279 307 444 1.172 416 204 128 81 380 Denmark -------------------- 1.181 1.145 516 209 123 101 146 135 192 324 282 255 318 107 132 106 98 259 France ---------------------- 3.086 2.915 1.281 299 261 325 432 490 579 749 850 770 1.858 1.084 504 220 184 1.554 Germany . .------------------ 25.957 27.119 10.100 2.086 1.324 3.515 4.891 6.073 11.127 17.868 32.759 26.083 13.051 4.883 1.276 1.324 1.189 3.634 Ireland------------------- 65.721 53.753 15.040 2.315 1.274 1.882 2.071 2.035 2.584 3.365 3.426 3.141 4.257 1.495 1.724 2.303 5.106 8.701 Iceland ------------- 100 41 22 5 2 2 2 5 3 6 5 6 9 10 10 26 43 69 Ireland ------------- 17.853 19.692 8.786 452 282 322 301 367 447 1.100 1.418 966 831 161 196 123 232 546 Luxemburg ------------------ 100 96 41 7 4 2 12 5 10 18 24 24 85 97 23 2 11 14 Netherlands ---------------- 3.153 2.828 3. 201 106 133 143 259 262 379 365 670 1.140 1. 175 235 222 259 152 434 Norway ----------------- - 2. 377 2.546 1.156 260 141 165 208 197 330 518 465 456 448 100 102 176 100 300 Sweden ---------------------- 2 3.314 3.204 1.247 290 105 153 160 154 303 364 324 411 285 111 94 80 57 288 Switzerland ----------------- 1.707 1.605 797 132 122 IM 192 189 312 427 605 617 759 235 121 46 - 52 237 Southern and Eastern Europe .... 24.648 24.002 14.498 0.042 4.091 b.286 7.971 8.142 1.754 16.254 20.400 16.828 11. 6.213 4.106 4.19 3.737 11.423 Albania ---------------------- 100 110 81 102 75 57 74 107 98 106 97 88 7 1 3 10 5 833 Austria 3 --------------------- 1.413 1.417 524 187 121 229 641 569 409 -- ---- ---- ...... _ . . - ------- --------- 23 Bulgaria --------------------- 100 95 52 11 11 17 52 63 57 106 105 92 102 14 8 20 9 Czechoslovakia ------------- 2.874 2.898 1.448 304 171 389 610 766 1.519 2.853 2.716 1.979 1.787 568 362 323 276 964 Danzig. Free City of ---------- 100 112 52 6 10 8 13 16 41 89 177 100 40 13 6 9 6 32 Estonia ---------------------- 116 112 71 15 17 36 28 34 30 40 107 98 63 27 i8 27 16 113 Finland ---------------------- 569 559 36 69 72 114 105 72 215 496 461 282 35 58 99 63 53 172 Greece ----------------------- 310 362 308 141 108 200 324 347 370 351 381 346 232 199 301 287 218 291 Hungary --------------------- 859 864 624 329 187 209 399 515 739 962 1.087 1. 432 584 284 163 212 117 488 Italy ------------------------- 5.799 5.611 4.246 2.013 1.109 1.363 2.129 2.470 2.906 3.435 4.161 3.971 690 59 67 16D 268 1.262 Latvia ----------------------- 236 202 138 43 29 48 49 60 114 154 223 184 171 105 62 62 43 180 Lithuania -------------------- 38 398 305 181 96 124 190 151 221 397 365 294 232 126 117 93 78 215 Poland ----------------------- 6.524 6.456 2.841 917 961 1.138 1.682 1.250 1.855 4.218 6.512 4.354 4.406 2.203 1.533 1.338 1.122 4.144 Portugal --------------------- 440 437 433 201 70 168 304 276 236 323 404 417 316 143 263 380 421 420 Rumania --------------------- 291 670 497 318 236 199 295 282 371 407 499 469 286 282 220 230 215 349 Spain ------------------------ 252 332 263 191 164 228 252 250 244 264 253 225 265 175 255 241 182 238 Turkey ---------------------- 226 230 212 217 221 224 226 204 184 243 213 186 167 115 107 178 156 188 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ---------------- 2.798 2. 296 1.553 533 318 425 370 409 592 942 1. 772 1. 647 1. 612 732 426 389 372 938 Yugoslavia ------------------ 845 782 523 252 105 116 215 291 527 852 850 651 238 107 90 167 177 547 Other Southern and Eastern Europe ----------------400 9 27 12 10 ....... 13 10 26 16 17 13 15 2 6 1 3 6 Asia ---------------------------1.05 891 496 331 189 223 202 234 295 5 87 549 532 25 191 214 388 710 Africa ----------------------- 1.260 273 206 72 20 33 41 40 64 74 78 99 162 97 63 47 71 269 Pacific ------------------------------- 700 269 218 170 89 102 144 157 168 199 202 208 210 96 77 150 122 277 Quota nationality All countries ------------Europe ------------------------Northern and western Europ* -----------------Belgium ---------------Denmuark -------------France -----------------Germany -------------Great Britain. Northern Ireland ............ Iceland ----------------Ireland ----------------Luxemburg -----------Netherlands ----------Noway --------------Sweden ----------------Swilzerland -----------Southern and Eastern Eu rope ---------------------Austria ----------------Bulgaria ---------------Czechoslovakia -.-------Estonia ----------------Annual quota_ 154. 277 Quota immigrants admitted 70. 701 69. 12 1949 1950 1951 156. 547 154. 759 47. 026 1.082 2.600 14. 637 15. 366 3.810 3.102 2. 248 1. 360 1. 372 107. 733 1.361 8.70 2.230. 92. 526 113. 046 197. 460 00.632 111.443 195. 671 1.304 1.181 3.085 2.957 65. 721 17. 853 9.153 2.377 3.314 1.707 24. 719 1.413 2. 874 47.047 1.315 1. 097 3.140 13.662 19. 21 2.01 2.451 1.928 1. 187 22.081 1.455 2.663 67. 395 1.308 1. 172 3.059 17.229 27. 774 7. 444 3. 515 2. 460 1. 965 1. 331 23.237 1.692 2.8631 59. 578 1.270 1.109 2. 997 23.543 8.05 2.601 2. 376 1.503 51. 865 1.327 3.255 L 716 69. 365 1. 101 3. 187 31. 511 17. 194 6.444 3. 067 2. 179 I. 876 1.60 126. 305 6.153 4.058 5.387 Quota nationality Asnual quota - I *~ - I EuropeContinued Southern and Eastern EuropeConrinued F inland ---------------Greece ----------- :--Hungary ----------Italy -------------------L atvia -----------------Lithuania ..------------Poland ----------------P ortugal ---------------R u m a n ia - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spain ----.-------------Turkey 1.---------- -- -