Word: census
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed (62 to 6) the Immigration Bill, with a quota basis of 2% of the 1890 census and an amendment limiting immigration (after 1927) to an annual total...
Returns by the Census Bureau of the final ginning report for the year shows that the last cotton crop amounted to 10,128,478 bales, close to the estimate of 10,081,000 bales made for the crop last December. This compares with a crop the preceding year of 9,762,069 bales...
...quota based on the 1890 census (the present quotas are 3% on the 1910 census) have aroused many foreign groups and nations to protest. But last week's fight centred principally on the provision for absolute exclusion of all aliens ineligible for citizenship, meaning especially Japanese. Secretary of State Hughes had previously opposed that provision on the ground that it would offend Japan. The total exclusion provision would break the commercial treaty of 1911 which allowed Japan to send immigrants, but was accompanied by a "gentleman's agreement" that the Japanese Government would not issue passports...
...Chamber of Commerce ... I have a recollection that somewhere in the New Testament it says that when the Carpenter of Nazareth spoke, the common people heard him gladly, while the religious and business classes persecuted and crucified him ... It might be well for you to take a census of your own churches and especially to count the number of men on your official board who earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brows...
...cutting of quotas from the pres-ent 3% to 2% and taking the census of 1890 instead of 1910, as at present, as basis for the quotas would reduce gross immigration from about 358,000 to about 159,000. This alienates from the bill large manufacturers who want a well stocked labor market. To counterbalance this group there is organized labor which favors even greater restrictions. The alteration of the basis of the quota from 1910 to 1890 has the effect of a greater proportionate quota for northern and western European countries and smaller proportionate quotas for southern and eastern...