National origins provision of immigration law

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Identifikator:: 1796380105

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

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: National origins provision of immigration law

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: III, 171 S

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Statement of Hon. John W. McCormack, representive in congress from the state of Massachusetts

Collection:: Economics Books

NATIONAL ORIGINS PROVISION OF IMMIGRATION LAW 143 Senator Reep. Then your position is that the action of the Legion convention was wrong } Representative McCormack. The action of the representative as expressed, and naturally he follows out the action of the Legion convention, in my opinion, does not represent the rank and file of the American Legion. Senator Rerp. What source of information have you about the rank and file attitude of the American Legion? Representative McCormack. I know that this is not a sectional matter. This question does not confine itself to any one area of our country; it concerns the people in every State of the Union. Senator REeep. Yes; and there were representatives at that con- vention from every State of the Union, were there not? Representative McCorsrack. While I have never attended a con- vention, the primary matter of interest in the convention is the elec- tion of its officers. Senator Reep. You think they are not interested in national prob- lems ¢ Representative McCormack. Probably my remark needs a little further explanation. I do not want to say the primary matter of interest in the convention is the election of officers. I will explain that so it will be interpreted correctly. The primary duty from a practical angle which shapes up in the minds of the delegates, or a good portion of them, is the lining up of State organizations and Jelegations behind this or that man for national commander and other offices, and many times in the activity of that work platforms are adopted without a profound understanding. Here is something you gentlemen have been considering for years, and yet in this committee and in the House committee men actuated by the high desire of rendering public service as their conscience dictates differ; and yet you are seeking more information. You want something more. You are seeking light. You want it, and you welcome people coming before you in order to get a thought. The gentleman who just spoke before gave me a thought when he said, “ Would you as a business man look upon the 1790 census as a basis for determining origins?” Senator Harris, Will you allow me to ask you a question? Representative McCormack. Yes, sir. Senator Harris. What is more important or what is anything like as important as a meeting of the American Legion, when this ques- tion was before Congress, in view of the record that the Senator from Pennsylvania just told you of, the number that claimed exemp- tion during the war, it seems to me there was nothing more vital to the men who fought and the men who are going to fight than just the information showing the number that claimed exemption? Representative McCormack. All right. Senator Harris. What we would just like to know is what was more important for the American Legion to decide than that? Representative McCormack. In presenting those facts they should also present the fact as to the number of American citizens who claimed exemptions. In following that out they should cold-blood- edly, if they wanted to advance that as an argument, state how many

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