Geschichte der volkswirtschaftlichen Lehrmeinungen

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Identifikator:: 1895543282

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-242408

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Author:: Munro, Joseph Edwin Crawford http://d-nb.info/gnd/1113111038

Title:: The Constitution of Canada

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: Univ. Press

Year of publication:: 1889

Scope:: XXXVI, 356 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter XI. The Dominion Parliament

Collection:: Economics Books

136 ~~ NATIONAL ORIGINS PROVISION OF IMMIGRATION LAW it is very hard to say what is desirable immigration. When you look into it and see some people who came over and who have proven themselves great Americans, though you and I agree if they had applied to us for admission we would have barred them right away, and we would feel we were doing something for the good of the country, and yet those men turned out very well. It is a very dif- ficult thing to do. But out feeling is thai the best basis would be some selection of immigration, a personal selection rather than group selection, if that could be done. But if you are going to use some basis, then at least let us go back to the 1790 basis. Senator Nye. You mean 1890 basis? Mr. Roper. I mean 1890, which is now working out fairly satis- factorily. I think, while there are protests on every side, if you could have every one speak they would feel there was more sound basis for this 1890 than there is for the 1790, and if any hardships for the British immigration then arbitrarily increase British immigration, there is no objection to that. . Senator Rupp. I think we understand your position. The Cmamrmaxn. Are there any other questions by other members of the committee to be asked Mr. Ridder? [After a pause.] That 1S all, Thank you very much. Is Congressman McCormack here now ? Representative McCormack. Yes, sir. The Cmamrman. Congressman, I understood you wished to be heard upon this matter. Representative McCormack. Just briefly. STATEMENT OF HON. JOHN W. MeCORMACK, REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS Representative McCormack. I received quite a few telegrams as the result of the utterances made by the representative of the Amer- ican Legion at the hearing last Saturday, and particularly on two aspects of his utterances. First, where he undertook to represent to the committee, as I understand it, that 860,000 or more members of the Legion and 850,000 auxiliary memberships were em- phatically upholding the underlying principle of the national origins clause, and as to that aspect most of the objections I received or telegrams which I received from Legion posts repudiate and deny that fact. It is a fact, I believe, that at the Saratoga convention there was some action taken along that line, but it was a convention wherein there was no referendum to any members. By the way, I want to apologize for misdirecting a letter which I intended to reach the chairman of this committee but which went to the chairman of the House committee. The Cmarrmaxn. Such is fame. [Laughter] Representative McCormack. Probably it was a lack of experience on my part. The Crairman. Not at all. Representative McCormack. Personally, the statements made by the representative of the Legion certainly do not voice my senti- ments, because of the arguments which you gentlemen know so well

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