I am very glad the Senator from Illinois is bringing out some of the details in regard to the development of the National Origins Act. and. in particular. how names were used as a basis for the determination of national strains. In that connection. Mr. President. let me say that the bill before the Senate. as it now stands. represents an attempt to restrict immigration by means of a determination of blood lines. which obviously is an impossible task. I make that statement for the reason that when the Government of the United States tried to determine how best it could ascertain the racial strains of the population. it came to the obvious conclusion that the only way to do so readily and with any reasonable degree of accuracyalthough certainly it was still very far from being accuratewas on the basis of names. Yet.
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