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line, with the national origins method of fixing quotas for foreign
countries, which I thought was every 10 years.
Mr. Hussanp. No; I think not. I think you established a permanent
 quota system under the national origin plan. You agree
with that, don’t you, Colonel Martin?
Colonel Martin. Yes. .
Mr. Box. Mr. Secretary, if this act, in case it becomes law, should
anywhere touch countries affected by the present quotas law, that
would require a readjustment of the quotas, under the national
origin, for those countries, would it not? Suppose we should make
this law overlap some of the territory covered by the law under which
the national origins quotas are figured. We would either have a dual
quota, as Colonel Martin suggested—a duplicate quota—or we
would have to readjust the quotas under the national origins, wouldn't
we?
Mr. HusBanp. I think if you set up a quota for a new quota area
which includes, say, the British West Indies, that it would be necessary
 to deduct from the population which is the basis of the present
British quota, that part of such population which originated in the
British West Indies, thereby reducing the quota of Great Britain
and Northern Ireland to a certain extent. Of course, the reduction
would be very small.
Mr. Jenkins. It strikes me that the best thing to do would be to
modify this language so that it would include all territory that is now
included under the European quotas law.
Mr. Hussanp. I think that is something you will want to consider
very carefully.
Mr. Jenkins. I see.
Mr. HusBanpd. The whole British quota is now open to the British
West Indies.
Mr. Scanzmper. Can you give us an opinion——
Mr. Box. Will you excuse me? I beg your pardon, but he just
made a very important statement.
You say that the whole British quota is now subject to the population
 of the British West Indies?
Mr. Hussanp. Theoretically.
Mr. Box. In actual operation it is not?
Mr. Hussanp. Oh, no; but, theoretically, the whole British quota
might come from Jamaica.
Mr. Box. And that is not a white population down there, of
course everybody knows.
Mr. ScaNeiper. Doesn’t our department allocate that quota?
Mr. Box. Yes; he says he does in actual operation, but he says this
is theoretical,
Mr. Jenkins. I will hold that is a satisfactory statement.
Mr. Hussanp. I might say that the increase in the British quota
under the national origins plan is already reflected in an increase of
immigration from the British West Indies.
Mr. Scaveiper. Could you give us an opinion now, or prepare
for the committee a statement as to your opinion, of how the quota
provided in Chairman Johnson’s bill for these respective countries
compares with the quotas under the national-origins provision of the
1924 act or the immigration ast?
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