National origins provision of immigration law

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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 Frances H. Kinnicutt, immigration restriction league, and allied patriotic society, New York City

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NATIONAL ORIGINS PROVISION OF IMMIGRATION LAW 153 I also ask to have put in the record appended to my statement a resolution of the Immigration Restriction League (Inc.) adopted January 25, 1929, in opposition to the Nye resolution (Exhibit 1) and a resolution of the Allied Patriotic Societies in support of the national origins provision (Exhibit 2). Also a copy of a memorial to the same effect signed by representatives of 23 patriotic organiza- tions when the question of the first postponement of the national origins provision came before Congress in 1927 (Exhibit 3), and an important memorial (Exhibit 4) with 47 signatures, which include ‘he names of some of the most distinguished biologists, ethnologists, and authorities on immigration in the United States. Some of these are Prof. Edwin S. Conklin, of Princeton, Profs. E. M. East and Ernest A. Hooten, of Harvard, eminent authorities on biology and anthropology ; Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn, president of the Amer- ican Museum of Natural History; C. C. Little, president of the Uni- versity of Michigan; A. Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard, and such well-known authorities on immigration as Robert De C. Ward, John R. Commons, and Henry P. Fairchild. In addition to these documents, with the committee’s permission, 1 annex, to my statement (Exhibit 6) table showing the principal dis- ~riminations produced by the 1890 foreign-born quota basis and what they would amount to over a period of years, another table (Exhibit 7) taken from the 1920 census showing the comparative racial assim- ibility of certain immigrant groups as indicated by intermarriage with native Americans, and finally (Exhibit 5) a translation of part of an article in a German newspaper quoting a speech of the late am- bassador to the United States, to the effect that the German-Ameri- cans in the United States had caused postponement of national origins in 1927. The position of the societies which I represent, with respect to the question of the Nye resolution, is briefly as follows: We believe that the national origins provision of the immigration act of 1924, which provides a permanent basis for apportioning the quota of immigra- tion, is an integral and essential part of our present policy of restrict- ing immigration; that ample time having elapsed for the scientific and correct determination of the nationl origins quotas in the manner provided by Congress, these quotas should be put into effect accord- ing to the terms of the law as at present amended. and we are strongly opposed to further postponement. As to the national origins provision itself, we wholly approve of it and for the same reasons given by the late Congressman William N. Vaile, in a speech delivered in the House of Representatives in De- cember, 1925. Mr. Vaile, who was a member of the conference com- mittee which accepted the national origins amendment offered by Senator Reed to the bill introduced bv Congressman Albert Johnson in 1994. said: The national origins plan is fair to all; it avoids completely all racial dis- srimination, and it will preserve the blood of the Uniterl States in its present aroportions. } More specifically, we believe that the national origins provision is aecessary not only to prevent the present heavy discrimination against the native-born American population in the 1890 foreign- bom census basis. but also as a means of preserving such degree of

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