admitted should be registered and any immigrant found unregis-
tered in the United States should be liable to deportation. The
Commissioner-General of Immigration or some other executive
officer should be empowered, with the consent of the President,
to waive, by order properly issued, the limitation on the number
of any race emigrating from a country because of political or
religious persecution. The number fixed upon in the law should
obtain (subject to the exception just noted) indefinitely and until
changed by act of Congress.?

While it is impossible to make comparison between the data
presented by the Census of 1910 and the immigrants admitted
to the United States in 1914 to show accurately just how restric-
tive such a measure as that suggested would be, it general effect
is roughly shown by the following table:

 

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I II lil IV Vv VI VII
No. : No. of Possible | [mmi-
Foreign | No. of | Native | Totalof | Annual | grant
Country Born Same Born of | Columns |Immigra-| Aliens
Males 21 | Natural-| Foreign | III and | tion less | 4 qmitted
and over ized Parent- IV Excepted| in 1914
in U.S. age Classes

A. Northwest Europe—
Great Britain and

 

 

 

 

 

  

Ireland _... 1,211,182 | 770,094 | 5,163,277 | 5,933,371 296,669 73,417
Germany ... 1,278,677 | 889,007 | 5,781,437 | 6,670,444 333,522 35,734
Norwayi oe se 213,042 121,651 575,241 696,892 34,845 8,329
Sweden 22.00 ee 349,022 | 219,057 699,032 981,089 45,905 14,800
Denmark .............. - .........| 102,398 63,068 218,443 281,511 14,076 6,262 |
Netherlands ...................- 59,752 33,922 173,521 207,443 10,372 6,321
Belgium ......... 27,619 11,869 39,867 51,736 2,587 5,763
Pirance ieee ee 59,661 29,613 175,153 204,766 10,238 9,296
Switzerland _...............----- 69,241 42,760 176,816 219,576 10,979 4,211

B. South and East Europe—

POTtU Sos) 3a 28,693 7,141 53,499 60,640 3,032 10,889
DAI, eee eee ee 14,170 2,318 11,157 13,475 1,000 7,591
Gath ce Reals ee ee ee 712,812 | 126,523 755,290 881,813 44,091 283,738
RUSSIS 2s ee ee ee 737,120 | 192,264 938,897 | 1,131,161 56,553 255,650
inland ee ees ee 70,716 21,669 81,357 103,026 5,151 |.....--oeeee
ATISENIG cee 609,347 | 149,914 826,635 976,549 48,827 134,831
Ehumnrary (oo ee 255,844 36,610 204,627 241,237 10,619 143,321
ROUMANIG es eee 27,835 8,014 21,801 29,815 1,491 4,032
Bulgaria, Servia and

Montenegro ___..._.........-- 17,524 821 1,234 2,055 1,000 9,189
Grecce es 2 ee a eee 74,975 4,946 8,401 13,347 1,000 35,832
Turkey in Europe............ 22,788 1,474 3,093 4,567 1,000 8,199

C. China and Japan—
Ghina 2s ee We ok ei a 22,1305}  22,130a 1,107 2,502
AE Spas TN Re eo tard Be yh ae ee ee 24,3916] 24,391 1,220 8,929
ected aE eee

         

(a) Number naturalized in Hawaiian Islands, unknown but few.

(b) Native born in Hawaiian Islands included—Chniese 7,195, Ja-
panese 19,889.

2 To avoid difficulties which would arise when a new Census was
taken and to avoid any implied promise to permit larger numbers to be
admitted when the total used as a basis in establishing the numbers
fixed upon in the law, had increased by naturalization or by native birth.

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