National origins provision of immigration law

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Identifikator:: 883879484

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-5824

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Author:: Illig, Hermann

Title:: Das Geldwesen Frankreichs zur Zeit der ersten Revolution bis zum Ende der Papiergeldwährung

Place of publication:: Strassburg

Publisher:: Verlag von Karl J. Trübner

Year of publication:: 1914

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 87 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: II. Abschnitt. Das französische Geldwesen der grossen Revolution bis zum Ende der Papiergeldwährung (von 1789 bis 1796): Die Papiergeldwährung

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NATIONAL ORIGINS PROVISION OF IMMIGRATION LAW 77 That in general, Mr. Chairman, is our attitude on the national-ori- oins provision of the 1924 act. It is in the law now. The 1890 ensus was an expedient. The national origins has been twice extended. We earnestly beseech you, Mr. Chairman and this committee, to use your best efforts in seeing that now the national-origins clause of the immigration act be put into effect. I thank you very much. Mr. Lio¥p. If there are no questions, 1 would like Mr. Edward R. Lewis, member of the Chicago bar and chairman of the executive committee of the Immigration Restriction Association, and author of the volume, “America, Nation or Confusion.” Mr. Lewis. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee— The CirarMAN. Mr. Lewis, may 1 thank you first, for sending me a copy of your work which I read with utmost pleasure, if not with the utmost profit; and 1 appreciate very much indeed the fact that vou did send me a copy. You may now proceed in your own way, stating first your name, residence, and occupation to the reporter; and then in detail in such fashion as vou desire vour views upon the pending matter. STATEMENT OF EDWARD R. LEWIS, CHAIRMAN EXECUTIVE COM- MIOTES IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION ASSOCIATION, CHICAGO. TI. Mr. Lewis. My name is Edward R. Lewis. I am a lawyer In Chicago. Ill. My residence is in Wenetlka, Ill, a suburb of Chicago. I am chairman of the executive committee of the Immigration Re- driction Association of Chicago, an organization which was organized in Chicago in June, 1927. Senator Harris. Are you representing anyone else. except this organization you refer to? Mur. Lewis, Sir? Senator Harris. Do you represent anyone else except the organiza- tion you refer to? Mr. Lewis. No, sir. In studying the national origins question and the various bases for determining the quotas, 1 thought last fall, I believe, then. it first occurred to me, that an interesting study should be made of the representative historians of some of the important racial groups in this country, to see what their own estimates of the strength of those racial groups was. In other words, the very root and essence of national origins is that which counts everybody and is fair to everybody; and yet there were gentlemen, earnest citizens, whom I thought very sincerely believed that they were not fair, and I thought that it would be worth while to see what the representative historians of some of our larger racial groups had estimated. 1 think it is a fairly cafe statement that most of the disputes have arisen on the division of 1790 stock, which was 3,172,000. I think there is an estimate of the American Council of Learned Societies that if you add those in the territory outside of the census, it would be about 75,000 more which increased to about $1,000,000 and some hundred thousand in 1920, or an increase of thirteen times; and the origins experts have divided the 41.000.000 o5QQS 9G. 6

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