NATIONAL ORIGINS PROVISION OF IMMIGRATION LAW 83 
Senator King. It is understood, Mr. Chairman, that of course, 
those serving on this committee, the Senators, have other important 
duties. 
The Crarman. 1 quite agree with you; and we have innumerable 
duties that make it impossible for us to attend all meetings as we 
desire. 
Senator Kina. I had to leave one committee to come here. 
Senator Keyes. I think you can say all of us, not one of us. 
The Caairman. We are all in the same fix. 
Mr. Lewrs. I think that it is fair to say that the utmost dispute 
over the German voter may be said to occur between two figures of 
360,000 and 231,000 in 1790. The difference between 231,000 and 
360,000 is 129,000. That is the sole dispute that there can be. 
I might just more or less emphasize that by taking the report of 
Mr. Hill in the Document 65, last session. He gives the ia 
population of German origin as 14,833,588. Now, then, the first 
toreign born, 1,672,375—just the exact census figure for the 1890 
foreign born and the other foreign born—so there is no element of 
dispute there. 
The second is the children of foreign born, or 4,037,313; that is also 
a census figure. You can get that right in the 1920 census. I will 
explain that I understand from Doctor Hill’s testimony that most of 
those are adjusted by deducting, due to loss of German territory 
in the war. Those two are exact. are as exact as anv foreign-born 
ficure Is. 
The third is the children of immigrants and later generations— 
6,133,800. That is what you might call the nineteenth centurv im- 
migration and their descendants. 
That is, as you will see, about 80 per cent of the total who are 
grouped—20,629,219—page 199. 
Now, as to that figure, in that period, in the nineteenth century, 
from 1800 or from 1820, when the figures were taken, to 1900, the 
German 1mmigration was 28 per cent and a fraction of our total 
immigration. 
Senator King. You are not reading from the report, now? 
Mr. Lewis. No, sir. Then, they get 30 per cent of that group; 
that is, they get 29.6 per cent. There is grandchildren a later 
generations in column 6, and they contributed slightly less than our 
immigration in the nineteenth century. So I think that there is very 
little chance for dispute of that figure. 
They.get a slightly greater proportion in that group than they 
contributed to our immigration in the nineteenth century; and they 
vet a greater proportion in that group in 1900, taking that as a tape 
when most of them should be judged from. 
So it comes down, then, to the sole dispute in the 1790 figure, the 
total difference 1s 129,000, the difference between Schrader’s and 
Doctor Faust’s estimate and Doctor Hill’s committee’s estimate. I 
shall multiply 129,000 by 13, and you will get in 1920 a total popu- 
lation of 1,607,000. If there is one in the quota from 595 in the 
population, then the increase in the German quota is 2,816. 
In other words, gentlemen, if the utmost difference between the 
recognized historians of the German element are taken—367,000 or