160 NATIONAL ORIGINS PROVISION OF IMMIGRATION LAW
We believe that this equitable representation is only approximately secured
hy the 1890 census basis, which was resorted to temporarily by Congress as the
readiest available method of carrying out the underlying principle of the entire:
law, which is nothing more nor less than the preservation of the American
people and the American Nation.
In view of the foregoing considerations, we urge upon the President and
upon Congress the maintenance of the basic provisions of the immigration act
of 1924, and particularly the permanent basis for apportioning the quota immi-
gration in accordance with the national origins of our present population.
Leonora Rogers Schuyler, president, Washington Headquarters Association.
Song of Confederate Veterans, eastern division, Silas W. Fry, commander.
New York State Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of
Founders and Patriots of America, Mary J. Aikenhead Davy, president.
Florence G. Finch, regent of the Jacobus Roosevelt Chapter, D. A. BR.
National Society Women Builders of America, Mrs. William Cumming
Story.
Bowery Mission, Anson O. Baker, secretary.
Women’s Republican Association of the State of New York, Eleonora G.
Goldsborough.
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, National Americanization:
Committee, Walter I. Joyce, director.
Old Guard of New York, Walter I. Joyce, quartermaster.
Daughters of America, Sadie E. Linkletter, national legislative chairman.
Daughters of America, Sadie E. Ludlow, State council outside sent.
Lord’s Day Alliance of the United States, Harry L. Bowlby, general secretary.
Patriotic Order Sons of America, C. B. Helms, chairman national legislative
committee.
Law and Order Union, D. Braman, president.
New York Port Society, Mrs. Charles R. Scarborough.
American Defense Society, by Charles Stewart Davison, chairman immigra--
tion committee.
Dames of the Loyal Legion, Society of State of New York, Emma BE. R.
Cairns, president.
The State Council of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics of the
State of New York (Inc.), Franklin 8. Faye, secretary.
Military Order of the Loyal Legion, New York Commandery, Alex L. Ward.
Grace H. Brosseau, president-general, N. 8. D. AR.
Immigration Restriction League (Inc.), William B. Griffith, chairman,
axecutive committee.
National Council Junior Order of United American Mechanics, John H. Noyes,
aational legislative committee.
Tosiah A. Van Orsdel, vice president general, Sons of American Revolution.
JOPY OF MEMORIAL TO THE PRESIDENT, THE SENATE, AND THE HOUSE OF REPRE-
SENTATIVES, DATED JANUARY 4, 1927
We, the undersigned, all citizens of the United States, impressed with the
vital importance to the country of maintaining and perfecting the present system
of immigration restriction, respectfully submit to the President of the United
States, to the Senate, and to the House of Representatives, the following
axpression of our views with respect to specific aspects of this question.
1. We urge the extension of the quota system to all countries of North and
South America from which we have substantial immigration and in which the
population is not predominantly of the white race. We believe that without such
oxtension the present restriction of immigration is already inadequate and will
become increasingly so in the near future. During each of the last two fiscal
years we have been admitting upwards of 75,000 immigrants from Mexico, the
West Indies, Brazil, and elsewhere, who are for the most part not of the white
race and who, because of their lower standards of living, are able to compete
at an advantage with American workers engaged in various forms of agricul-
-ural and unskilled labor.
2. We further urge the prompt pufting into effect of that provision of the
immigration act of 1924, whereby the quotas, after July 1, 1927, at present
determined by the number of foreign born of each nationality here in the
