National origins provision of immigration law

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Identifikator:: 1796380105

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-196168

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Title:: National origins provision of immigration law

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: III, 171 S

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Statement of Edward R. lewis, chairman executive committee, Immigration Restriction Legislation, Chicago, Ill.

Collection:: Economics Books

NATIONAL ORIGINS PROVISION OF IMMIGRATION LAW 111 reiterated. when the final report was put in later. Furthermore, I understand on good authority that both Departments of State and Labor now take the position that they have no opinion as to the merits of these quotas; and, furthermore, certain well-informed people hold that those departments are not authorized to express an opinion in regard to them. Another point that I recall is that Mr. Mowitz, while a very agree- able witness, referred to the monumental work of Doctor Hill and his associates as guesswork. Now, that is a question in which I should say that a layman such as Mr. Mowitz was not as well quali- fied to speak as would be Doctor Hill himself. I do not know that I ought to bother the committee with the quotations, but in his tes- timony before the House January, 1927, Doctor Hill pointed out that the margin of error in the national-origins figures was very small, that is to say, it was 1 in 600 for the whole population, and when one realizes the further fact that the whole controversy really revolves around the proportions in the 1790 population, which is a little less than a half, the margin is even very much less. Then in his testimony before the Senate, March, 1928, Doctor Hill, in response to questions from the Senator from Pennsylvania, stated that he had not heard of a fairer plan than national origins; in fact, he was impressed by the absence of any other alternatives except the quotas based on the foreign born of 1890, which, he said, in reply to a specific question, did not represent with any accuracy the proposition of nationalities in the present population of the United States. I think that it is going too far to say that that great work that the Assistant to the Director of the Census and the chairman of our quota board and his associates performed is pure guesswork; and on that subject I just want to read from another witness. I think we all know Mark Sullivan and appreciate his shrewdness and his integrity and reliability. Mark Sullivan, in an article on national integrity and reliability. Mark Sullivan, in an article in the Nash- ville Tennesseean on national origins, entitled “ Big Problems Fac- ing Congress,” wrote as follows: The selentists who made the computations insist they are right. Some per- sons who have talked with these statisticians have found them holding their ground firmly and insisting that the computation is possible and that it has been made with sufficiently approximate accuracy. It is a fact that some per- sons who flouted the whole idea of computing national origins huve been moved, after talking with the statisticians. to assent to the claim that the eommnntation haa eeiontific fondness. Now, I want to read a telegram from a gentleman whom we wanted to have here as a witness. from Chicago. but he could not rome. | Reading :] As general manager of American Vigilance Intelligence Federation, with nation-wide membership, and speaking for that membership also as first genera- tion from German ancestry native born, the stock that helped pioneer in our sountry, am lodging a vigorous and earnest protest against further delay in course of permitting the national-origins clhuse to go into effect as originally intended when enacted by the Congress. Vicious attacks by alien-minded hyphenates if successful now will mean a campaign by decent Americans to ‘otally exclude all immigration. National origins as quota basis is fair to all, discriminates against none, is possible of more accurate computation than 1890, and is backed by real American-minded oninion. Unless national origins goes into effect this vear as

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