WESTERN HEMISPHERE IMMIGRATION

THURSDAY. JANUARY 16, 1930

House or REPRESENTATIVES,
COMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION,
} Washington, D. C.
The committee met in the committee room, No. 483, House Office
Building, at 10.30 o'clock a. m., Hon. Albert Johnson (chairman)
presiding. } } .
The CHAIRMAN. The committee will be in order. We have assembled
 this morning to consider the bills (H. R. 8523, H. R. 8530, and
g. R. 8702) to limit the immigration of aliens to the United States,
and for other purposes. The reporter will insert copies of these bills
in the record at this point. }
The bills referred to are here printed in full, as follows:)
[H. R. 8523, Seventy-first Congress, second session]
A BILL To limit the immigration of aliens to the United States, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That this act may be cited as the “Immigration
act of 1930.” . ‘
Src. 2. That subsection (¢) of section 4 of the immigration act of 1924 is hereby
repealed.
Sec. 3. That subsections (a), (b), (¢), (d), and (e) of section 11, of the iramigration
 act of 1924, shall not apply to the Dominion of Canada, Newfoundland,
the Republic of Mexico, the Republic of Cuba, the Republic of Haiti, the Domini-La
 Republic, the Canal Zone, or anv independent country of Central or South
America.
Sec. 4. That the total number of persons born in all the geographical areas
named in section 3 of this act, admitted as quota immigrants during any fiscal
year after June 30, 1930, shall not exceed fifty thousand, and that only persons
born in said areas eligible to citizenship in the United States shall be admitted
as immigrants under this act.
Sze. 5. That the Secretary of Labor shall apportion to applicants for admission
 as quota immigrants who were born in each of the geographical areas named
in section 3 of this act, and who do not habitually speak the English language,
separate annual quotas for each of said areas which shall not exceed 3 per
centum of the average number of immigrants legally admitted annually from
each of said areas during the five fiscal years next preceding July 1, 1929, as
shown by the annual reports of the Commissioner General of Immigration for
said years. The Secretary of Labor shall apportion to persons eligible to citizenship
 born in said geographical areas who habitually speak the English language
 such annual immigration quotas as shall make the total number of quota
immigrants born in all the geographical areas named in section 3 of this act not
to exceed fifty thousand during any one fiscal year.
Se. 6. That the Secretary of Labor shall make the computations therein
required, and shall prescribe rules and regulations for the enforcement of the
provisions of this act, but all such rules and regulations, in so far as they relate
fo the administration of this act by consular officers, shall be prescribed by
the Secretary of State on the recommendation of the Secretary of Labor.
SEc. 7. That, except for provisions of previous legislation repealed or limited
py sections 2 and 8 of this act, the provisions of this act are in addition to and
ot in substitution for the provisions of the immigration laws, and shall be