56 NATIONAL ORIGINS PROVISION OF IMMIGRATION LAW 
Senator Reep. We are looking for light. 
Doctor Friepexwarp. I can not give you the light as you request. 
1 give you my views as I gathered them through mv life. in which 1 
have been interested in large measure— — 
Senator Nye. You do not think we found the light in the national 
origins. 
Doctor Frioexwarp. I certainly do not think we found the light 
in the national origins at all. 
Senator Reep. In asking us to continue the temporary basis, you 
are asking us to continue the injustices T am speaking to you about. 
Doctor Frizpexwarp. These injustices have gone on for some years. 
I will tell you a story about Mr. Julius Rosenwald, whom we all 
know. Mr, Rosenwald was a member of a committee of which I was 
the executive officer, and we would consider all kinds of Jewish 
things. One day, after an all-day session considering all sorts of 
educational and philanthropic things, we came to an application which 
had been made to us to aid the Falashas of Abyssinia. The Falashas 
of Abyssinia are black Jews; and Mr. Louis, of Marshall, our chair- 
man, turned to Mr. Rosenwald and said, “Julius, why, they are 
black Jews. That is your interest; you are interested in the colored 
people all over the country. What shall we do about them?” 
Rosenwald put his hand in his pocket and pulled out his watch and 
said, “ It is almost 6 o'clock. We have been in session since 10 o’clock 
this morning. How long have those Ifalashes been there? »? « Oh, 
since about the sixth century B. C.,” answered Marshall, « If they 
have been there that long, they will stay there until our next meet. 
ing. I move we adjourn.” [Laughter.] 
Now, these problems are not to be settled right off the bat; you 
know that, Senator, perfectly well. You have got yourselves into 
a snarl, and you want to get out of it by tying onto it a new kind 
of rope—national origins. “There ain’t no such animal.” This 
thing has been discussed and the policy of the country seems to be to 
have restriction of immigration. 
Senator Rep. Although you personally do not believe in it? 
Doctor Fruevenwarp, Although I personally do not believe in it. 
I am probably mistaken, because I am willing to abide in the main 
by the will of the majority. I do not know enough about it in the 
present situation to say if I went into it again I would accept it or not, 
I only know that these gentlemen, IF ranklin, Wilson, Jefferson, and 
Richard Stockton, were speaking for the future, as stated in the 
journal I read from, you remember. They were the founders of 
this country, and knew what they wanted because there are no more 
remarkable products of the brain of men than the documents of the 
Revolutionary period and the constitutional period. 
Senator Rerp. And they were trying to encourage the settlement 
of the Hessians, in trying to encourage them to desert from the 
British army? 
Doctor Frrepexwarp. Yes; in war time. } 
Senator Rerp. And you favor the decision that gives representa- 
tives of those Hessians more Immigrants in the quota than these 
distinguished members of the constitutional convention who were 
discussing them ? 
Doctor Frrepexwarp. Senator, you are trying to pin me down to 
details.