Percentage Plans for Restriction of Immigration: Hearings ... June-Sept. 1919 |
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... basis of universal validity and applicability . I conceived of two such principles . I have been stating them in this way : We ought to admit no more than we can Americanize ; the capacity of the United States to turn into American ...
... basis of universal validity and applicability . I conceived of two such principles . I have been stating them in this way : We ought to admit no more than we can Americanize ; the capacity of the United States to turn into American ...
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... basis of existing data , and to use the same in fixing the permissible immigration . ( d ) That the permissible immigration for any people for the fraction of the year between the passage of this act and the end of the fiscal year ...
... basis of existing data , and to use the same in fixing the permissible immigration . ( d ) That the permissible immigration for any people for the fraction of the year between the passage of this act and the end of the fiscal year ...
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... basis , if this law should pass and the immigration commission should decide that the 10 per cent basis would be the proper figure , the permissible immigration from the countries of northwest Europe would be a million and a half ...
... basis , if this law should pass and the immigration commission should decide that the 10 per cent basis would be the proper figure , the permissible immigration from the countries of northwest Europe would be a million and a half ...
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... our immigration on a wholesome basis it was desirable to raise the standards for naturalization . At present , as so many are discovering , the standards are rather low , 12 PERCENTAGE PLANS FOR RESTRICTION OF IMMIGRATION .
... our immigration on a wholesome basis it was desirable to raise the standards for naturalization . At present , as so many are discovering , the standards are rather low , 12 PERCENTAGE PLANS FOR RESTRICTION OF IMMIGRATION .
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... basis of absolute equality for everyone , the geograp cal zone prohibition should be removed , because it is fundamenta opposed to the principle we are advocating , namely , the equality race treatment . Also , there is a clause in the ...
... basis of absolute equality for everyone , the geograp cal zone prohibition should be removed , because it is fundamenta opposed to the principle we are advocating , namely , the equality race treatment . Also , there is a clause in the ...
Common terms and phrases
admission admitted aliens amended American-born children Asiatics assimilate become American citizens bill birth rate born Bureau California census census of 1920 CHAIRMAN China citizenship coming Committee for Constructive Constructive Immigration Legislation Council of Churches court desirable economic English language excluded fact Federal Council figures FREEMAN gentlemen's agreement gration Gulick plan Hawaii Hawaiian Islands immi immigration commission increase indorsed Japa Japan Japanese births Japanese Government Japanese immigration Japanese in Hawaii Japanese population JENKS JOHN FRANKLIN MILLER KLECZKA KNUTSON labor land large numbers league MACFARLAND marriage matter maximum MCCLATCHY ment mother-tongue group MURPHY National Committee naturalized number of Japanese organization Orient passports percentage plan permissible immigration persons picture brides principles problem proposed law province of Japan question RAKER record regard residence restriction SABATH Sacramento schools Seattle Secretary Senator PHELAN SIEGEL statement statistics thing tion treaty undesirable United WELTY
Popular passages
Page 157 - Whenever the President shall be satisfied that passports issued by any foreign government to its citizens to go to any country other than the United States or to any insular possession of the United States...
Page 14 - Chinese subjects, whether proceeding to the United States as teachers, students, merchants or from curiosity, together with their body and household servants, and Chinese laborers who are now in the United States shall be allowed to go and come of their own free will and accord, and shall be accorded all the rights, privileges, immunities, and exemptions which are accorded to the citizens and subjects of the most favored nation.
Page 14 - If Chinese laborers, or Chinese of any other class, now either permanently or temporarily residing in the territory of the United States, meet with ill treatment at the hands of any other persons, the Government of the United States will exert all its power to devise measures for their protection and to secure to them the same rights, privileges, immunities, and exemptions as may be enjoyed by the citizens or subjects of the most favored nation, and to which they are entitled by treaty.
Page 157 - States only to such of its subjects as are nonlaborers or are laborers who, in comtng to the continent, seek to resume a formerly acquired domicile, to join a parent, wife, or children residing there, or to assume active control of an already possessed interest in a farming enterprise in this country ; so that the three classes of laborers entitled to receive passports have come to be designated " former residents," " parents, wives, or children of residents," and
Page 207 - Washington, duly authorized by his Government, has the honor to declare that the Imperial Japanese Government are fully prepared to maintain with equal effectiveness the limitation and control which they have for the past three years exercised in regulation of the...
Page 1 - States who later goes in transit from one part of the United States to another through foreign contiguous territory...
Page 207 - This understanding contemplates that the Japanese Government shall issue passports to continental United States only to such of its subjects as are nonlaborers or are laborers who, in coming to the continent, seek to resume a formerly acquired domicile, to join a parent, wife, or children residing there, or to assume active control of an already possessed interest in a farming enterprise in this country; so that the three classes of laborers entitled to receive passports have come to be designated...
Page 147 - ... he has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same.
Page 157 - Japanese or Korean laborers, skilled or unskilled, who have received passports to go to Mexico, Canada, or Hawaii, and come therefrom
Page 14 - China agrees that the Government of the United States may regulate, limit, or suspend such coming or residence, but may not absolutely prohibit it.