Die Zölle und Steuern sowie die vertragsmässigen auswärtigen Handelsbeziehungen des Deutschen Reiches

National origins provision of immigration law

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Title:: Die Zölle und Steuern sowie die vertragsmässigen auswärtigen Handelsbeziehungen des Deutschen Reiches

Edition:: 3. Bearb.

Place of publication:: München

Publisher:: Hirth

Year of publication:: 1886

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72 NATIONAL ORIGINS PROVISION OF IMMIGRATION LAW try at a particular time, or of naturalized aliens that might be re- siding here. The Junior Order, as the gentlemen of the committee and others present probably realize, has devoted a great deal of time to the study of this and similar questions, and it feels very strongly that the na- tional-origins clause ought to become operative as is now provided by law, and I am pleased to be present this morning to express these views; and I thank the committee for the courtesy. The Cuamrman. Thank you, sir. Is there anybody present who de- sires to present any views in behalf of the N ye resolution postponing the operation of the law for the period of a year? (After a pause.) Mr. Lloyd, will you designate who you wish called, please? Mr. Lroyp. Yes, sir. If I might take the committee’s time just for a minute, here are some more petitions just arrived. I would like to turn them over to the stenographer. The Cuairman. You may file them. (The petitions referred to were thereupon received and filed with the committee for reference.) i Mr. Lroyp. Here is a telegram, just recently arrived, which I did not have titne to read to the committee the other day. It is dated at Sacramento, Calif., February 5, and addressed to me [reading] : Chairman Hiram Johnson kindly wired us about when the public hearings national origins. Since the time prevents our sending representatives, trust you will most earnestly present our protest against any further annulment of this clause of quota act. Hntire Pacific coast patriotic societies emphatically opposed to further postponement. These constitute overwhelming majority of voters here. None thereof can grasp why Senate should yield to pressure groups that were disloyal during the war. These carried on propaganda then. Their mentality indicates loyalty of overseas instead of American flag. No finer group in America to-day than blood descendants of those who gave America her institutions. Why should they be penalized? IMMIGRATION STUDY COMMISSION. I would like also to read, if I may, a letter I received from Doctor Hill, in reply to one of my own, which will explain the situation [reading] : Dr. Josep A. Hiri, Chairman of the Quota Board, Census Bureau, Washington, D.C. My Dear Mr. HirL: A witness before the Senate Immigration Committee, at its hearing Wednesday, argued that national origins could not be computed because the ancestries of so many Americans, like his own, were mixed. The witness seemed ignorant of the specific statement in the law that the determination of the national origins “shall not be made by tracing the ancestors or descendants of particular individuals, but shall be based on statistics of immigration and emigration,” ete. In order to make the matter perfectly clear, however, I would appreciate it very much if you would drop me a line stating whether or not in working but the national-origins figures you were obliged to give any attention to indi- vidual genealogies and, if so, roughly, how much? Doctor Hills letter [reading] : DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, BureaU or THE CENSUS, . Washington, D. C., February 28, 1929. FEBRUARY 8. 1929 Mr. DEMAREST LLOYD, : 1825 R Street NW., Washington, D. C. Dear Me. Lroyp: Replying to your note of February 8, aud in answer to your inquiry XY would state that the quota board in determining immigration quotas did not’ make any attempt or find it necessary to trace individual genealogies tO any extent whatever

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