NATIONAL ORIGINS PROVISION OF IMMIGRATION LAW 149 
It was the condition of the country prior to the alien influx start- 
ng in 1850 which led to the above conclusions by Mr. Schultz, and 
t was the recognition of these facts 16 years later that resulted in 
the enactment of the immigration restriction of 1924 by Congress. 
Prior to the enactment of this legislation the Republican Party in 
1920 laid down in its platform the necessity of restricting immigra- 
tion to numbers that could be fully assimilated, and also went on 
record that preference should be given to immigrants whose stand- 
ards are similar to ours. This declaration of principles certainly 
did not contemplate the preferential status given to the Nordic races 
under the 1890 census basis. 
The assumption that quotas based on national origins are unwork- 
able by inability to determine origins is, to my mind, unfounded. 
Authorities in general agree within a small percentage, and a basis 
which is 80 to 90 per cent current is certainly stable enough for a 
foundation, especially as compared with 1890 census quota basis, 
where not even a fair average is found. 
A general examination of authorities indicate that of our popula- 
tion as regards the Anglo-Saxon and Nordic stock is around 70 per 
sent Anglo-Saxon and 80 per cent Nordic. The presidential com- 
missions’ quotas of 1927 and 1928 recognize this ratio with a little 
less degree of divergence. On the average conclusion of authorities 
then the Anglo-Saxon quota should be around 70,000 and the Nordic 
quota around 30,000 whereas the 1890 census basis gives the Anglo- 
axon race but 84,000 and the Nordic races around 68,000, due to the 
fact that the latter is based on a period in which there was an abnor- 
mal influx of foreign born of which nearly one-third were aliens who 
had not signified their intentions of becoming citizens. The fifty-odd 
million parent stock (census 1920) is eliminated from consideration 
while one-third of the basic number on which the 1890 quota is 
founded, are citizens, not of this country but of other countries. 
The continuance of the quotas based on the foreign-born as indicated 
by the abnormal figures of the 1890 census, is a direct deprivation of 
tne parent stock of this country of their rights and a surrender of 
same to the control of citizens of other countries. 
In my opinion the national-origins basis is wholly sound, work- 
able and provides the only equitable basis for the restriction of immi- 
gration, and that further delay in putting into effect the immigration 
act of 1924, is detrimental to the public interest in general and to 
the preservation of the national integrity of the country which was 
sstablished under trying difficulties long before the last comers had 
arrived to enjoy the benefits of the sacrifices and hardships endured 
oy our parent Anglo-Saxon stock. 
Mr. Ridder and Representative McCormack referred to Germanic 
immigration. The census records show that up to 1832 the German 
immigrants were very meager, that the average was not to exceed 
500 a year; that it increased in around 1854 to 215,009, and 1882 
it had increased to 250,630; and the influx of the Germans from 1820 
to 1923 was around 5,568,702. 
The foreign-born population in 1920, 47 per cent found in the 
States of New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Massachusetts—27 
per cent New York, 16 per cent Pennsylvania, 19 per cent in Illinois, 
and 27 per cent from Massachusetts, Of the foreign-born popula-