Full text: National origins provision of immigration law

162 NATIONAL. ORIGINS PROVISION OF IMMIGRATION LAW 
guilt. * * * On the immigration question the German-Americans were 
to be thanked that the new law under which only 26,000 Germans could 
emigrate annually to the United States had been postponed. Three further 
matters of great influence were art, sport, and science. Therefore, it was of 
great importance that the North German Lloyd should be helpful when German 
professors wished to travel to America. Before everything, sport in America 
plavs a very great role. More had been written in Americn about the German 
swimmer Rademacher than about any diplomat or artist.” 
ExHaisir No. 6 
PRINCIPAL DISCRIMINATIONS CAUSED BY THE 1800 FOREIGN-BORN CENSUS 
1890 foreign-born quotas 
Percentage 
Germany, 51,000. eee BL 
Irish Free State, 28,000 ce. A 
Great Britain and North Ireland, 34,000 eo 20 
National-origing quotas 
Percentage 
Germany, 24,908 eee 16 
Trish Bre Bale, 17401. re mmi msiiim iimnisg mim liiiit. imiibiiiiiiiimos. b 
Great Britain and North Ireland, 65,894 i 43 
Immigration over 10-year period on 1890 basis 
CHOTTIVIVILY. sii sion di e555 Sl at a 
[rish Free State __ 
510, 000 
280, 000 
Total. emma 790, 000 
Great Britain and North Ireland. eee. 340.000 
Immigration over 50-year period on 1890 basis 
Germany eer 2 DOU), 000 
Irish Free State eee 1,200, 000 
TT OEIUT ce er em 55 rr 5m min iim i si mr iis yy EG O00 
Great Britain and North Ireland. ____ 1,700. 000 
ExgIsiT 7 
Native white of foreign or mized parentage 
[Table taken from U. 8. Census, 1920, vol. 2, p. 897] 
Sngland . «ecm creeaae 
Jeotland ooo iii i ieee 
IPE cin msm ims sisson ss i os 
NDPWAY wwii mmm sme sw mien A Bors 
IPB i RS SARA RRR 48 SRE wi 
JOIUINIIL «oc morro mm mon sommes mel A BR 
3ermany. ..- mm ————— 
[talv rare mm em om 
Total 
1, 483, 024 
421, 147 
2,071, 688 
661, 174 
824,726 
276, 029 
5, 344; 128 
L721 781 
Both par- . 
ents foreign 
Father 
foreign 
574,499 571, 560 
178,638 153,917 
, 066,068 573, 021 
437,623 143,314 
500,744 | 144,382 
170, 702 73, 915 
3,397,370 | 1,367, 805 
1 556.065 | 146, 304 
Mother 
foreign 
336, 965 
88, 592 
131, 699 
80, 237 
80, 600 
© 31,412 
578, 053 
19. 202 
Analysis of the above figures show, with respect to- the eight countries in column 1, 
that there is a marked variation in the number of children born in the United States 
having one Amverican parent. In other words, it shows that some of these nationalities 
intermarry with the native-born American more than others,
	        
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