158 NATIONAL ORIGINS PROVISION OF IMMIGRATION LAW
State is admited to be fair by Americans of Irish descent. I refer
to the testimony of Mr. Joseph Carey, President of the American-
Irish Republican League, before the House Committee on Immigra-
tion and Naturalization, January 26, 1927 (p. 65) :
Mr. Carey. I am president of the American-Irish Republican League of
Detroit. It is a local organization.
Mr. Horapay. Is it a political organization?
Mr. Carey. Yes; it is.
Mr. Horapay. Is it composed largely of Irish?
Mr. Carey. It is American. We put America first. It is Americaun-Irish,
vecause we believe that America needs constant attention.
Mr. Horapay. I suppose your objection to the national-origins plan is based
primarily upon the fact that it would seriously reduce the quota of the Irish
Free State from the number granted it according to the census of 1890.
Mr. Carey. No; I would not say that. I have no instructions bearing on
that particular peint, but I believe it is generally thought that the Irish Free
State quota under the present law is quite liberal. It is very liberal. The
present quota is 13.000 looks qu'te liberal.
As already seen, the revised national-origins quota for the Irish
Free State is 17427.
In view of the fact that other points involved in the question be-
fore your committee have been pretty fully covered by other wit-
nesses, I shall not trespass upon your time by going into them. 1
will only add this word in conclusion: That the societies I represent
believe that the immigration act of 1924 was a statesmaniike meas-
ure, conscientiously worked out and meeting with the full approval
of the great majority of American citizens. A fundamental part
of the act—the permanent basis for apportioning the immigration—
lias not been allowed to go into eflect. We believe that a further
postponement of this provision of the existing law would be equiv-
alent to repudiation of the law itself and of our whole present sys-
tem of restricting immigration. Therefore. we are opposed to the
passage of the Nye resolution.
I beg to thank the committee for its great courtesy in permitting
me to make the foregoing statement, with accompanying exhibits.
Exnisir No. 1
COPY OF RESOLUTION OF IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION LEAGUE
Whereas Senate Joint Resolution 192, introduced by Senator Nye, provides
for a further postponement of one year in putting into effect the national
yriging clause of the immigration act of 1924 by which the inequalities in
the quotas of certain countries determined on the 1890 foreign born census basis
are removed so that our immigration is apportioned fairly in accordance with
the number of people in our present population of each national origin, and
Whereas said national-origins provision is fundamental part of the system of
quota restriction adopted by Congress in 1924 and further delay in putting
the same into effect amounts to repudiation of our whole present system of
restriction.
Resolved, by the main body of the Immigration Restriction League (Inc),
at a regular meeting held on the 25th day of January, 1929. that said Senate
Joint Resolution 192 is against the public interest and should not be enacted
into law.
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Fxursit No. 2
RESOLUTION
Resolution relating to immigration legislation unanimously adopted at the
regular monthly meeting of the Allied Patriotic Societies (Ine.), held on
Viav 2. 1928 «
