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 81 Mr. Lroyp. Mr. Chairman, as the witness may be interrupted, we have another witness, one who has made a study of that subject, and if the Senator would postpone his question, I think we could give him more information than Mr. Lewis is prepared to give. The Crarrman. Very well. Mr. Lewis. I do not want—-— The Cramman. I am sorry to interrupt you. Mr. Lewis. It is all right. I am glad to be interrupted, if I can help in any way. Senator Reep. Mr. Lewis, I think some of us do not understand the drift of your statement with regard to this Irish Catholic question. What does it all lead to? Mr. Lewis. I was going to lead just up to this, that here is Pro- fessor Shaughnessy, who 1s a representative historian of his church, who estimates that the number of Irish Catholics in 1790 was 100,000 to 150.000. Now, then, the origin committee shows the figure of 140,000 for South Ireland. Well, sir, gentlemen of the committee, there is abundance of testimony that almost all of the Irish Catholics were from south Ireland, and the Protestants were from Ulster; in fact, Mr. Shaughnessy utilizes in his book, as proof of his division, say, 400,000 for the Protestant Irish and 100.000 to 150.000 to the Catholic Irish. He cites several books, one by Prof. Henry Jones ¥ord, of Prince: ton University, who wrote the book The Scotch-Irish in America; another by Charles A. Hanna, The Scotch-Irish; and he also refers to Arthur Young, a great English traveler. who wrote A Tour in Ireland. Arthur Young’s book was written in 1780, just 10 years. before the census of 1790 was taken, and in that citation from Young by Shaughnessy, Young states that the Catholic Irish never went to America. Henry Jones Ford states that there was very little immigration from outside of Ulster until after the War of 1812. I think that the testimony is very clear that the Protestant Irish who came to the United States were the Protestant Irish who came from Ulster, and the Catholic Irish were those who came from the south; and when Binnginany gives a figure of 100,000 to 150,000, and the origin committee figures it at 140.000. it 1s pretty clear that there is no dispute on that group. Then, let us take the German group—— Senator Rerp. First, how i] in the German group dees the national-origins quota board state? Mr. Lewis. About 231,000 in 1790, Senator Reep. How many do they themselves claim? Mr. Lewis. Well, Albert Bernhardt Faust is professor of German at Cornell. He is a recognized scholar, and a recognized historian of German-American population, or population of (German origin in the United States, and he has written a book called The German Element in the United States. He estimates the number in 1790—— Senator Regp. Excuse me. What is the title of the hook and when published ? Mr. Lewts, The title is The German Element in the United States, and published by Houghton-Mifflin Co. in 1909.

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