New Immigration
Proposal
Senator Dillingham of Vermont, in a bill presented by him to
the Senate, proposed an entirely new system of restricting immigration to this
country. Senator Dillingham wants to put a definite yearly limit on immigration
from Europe of 5 per cent of the persons of each nationality residing in this
country. The bill would also repeal all existing laws relating to Asiatic
immigration. In defense of his bill the Senator from Vermont said:
“While it is believed that the percentum limit will prove of
most importance in improving relations with oriental countries and especially
with Japan, by removing any possible cause of friction over immigration
discrimination, the primary purpose of the bill is to fix a definite limit to
the future immigration of laborers, particularly from Southern or Eastern
Europe, thereby preventing a possible, if not probably, repetition of the
enormous influx of such immigration which prevailed prior to the war, and which
prevailed prior to the war, and which the Immigration Commission found to be
highly detrimental to labor conditions in this country.
“It is believed that the percentum plan will establish a
limit of the possible immigration of laborers from Southern and Eastern Europe
at a little more than one-third of the average annual influx before the war,
but that it will not materially interfere with resumption of the normal flow
from Northwestern Europe.”
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