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 John B. Trevor, National Immigration Restriction Conference, New York City

Collection:: Economics Books

A} NATIONAL ORIGINS PROVISION OF IMMIGRATION LAW 55 on the Constitution. It really is corroborative evidence. If I may introduce those statistics I think it may be interesting to the com- mittee. Spat Regp. I do not understand what the statistics bear upon at all. Mr. Trevor. This is a genealogical research into the ancestry of the men delegated by the various Colonies to the Constitutional Convention of 1787. It covers a vast amount of ancestry in the colonial period, and merely demonstrates a sort of corroborative evidence as to what those people, who were selected without any regard to racial affiliation, happened to make a picture of our co- lonial population. They represented—— Senator ReEp. If that can be briefly stated, I would like to have it. Mr. Trevor. A very slight revision, I think, will be made: English 69.94 per cent; Scotch 7.37 per cent; Welsh 2.30 per cent; Scotch- Irish 10 per cent; the total of the British contribution of ancestry 89.61 per cent; and the South-Irish 8.08 per cent; the Dutch 5.09 per cent; French-Huguenot 1.45 per cent, and Swedish 0.77 per cent. These men were selected without regard to anything more than that they were representative of the community in which they lived, and they took an important part in writing our fundamental law. It is of interest comparatively and not specifically. I do not suppose you gentlemen care to have me go into the gen- eral nature of the organizations that are opposed to this propesition or who are rather attacking the Nye resolution. They will probably appear here themselves. If at any time a comparison between those organizations and the patriotic organizations are necessary, I imagine the Senator from Pennsylvania could supply that data. I have a lot of names here which would take up your time possibly to read, Mr. Chairman. Senator Reep. I think, Mr. Chairman, it would be of advantage if we could have something on the other side of this matter, if Senator Nye’s witnesses are here. Mr. Trevor. I will omit that. : The Caatrman. Temporarily, I think, you may omit it, and then, in addition to that, I do not think the comparisons would be par- ticularly interesting to the committee. Mr. Trevor. It does not seem to me so. The Cruairmaxn. All right, then, omit them. Senator Rrep. What we are concerned with is the merits of the proposition itself and not the details of the people who are urging it. Myr. Trevor. It seems to me so. It is a little difficult for me to tell whether I have covered all the ground; it is a tremendous field. The Cramyan. I think you have done admirably, Captain, and if you desire hereafter to present any matters in addition, that oppor- tunity unquestionably will be afforded. I am advised by Senator Nye that one of the people interested on the other side of the con- troversy is here, and we will call him. Mr. Trevor. I want to express my appreciation, Senator, of the great courtesy that has been extended to me. The Crratemax. You owe me nothing in that regard, sir.

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