Show I QUOTA LAW HAS I LITTLE EFFECT I ON IMMIGRATION I Despite the WASHINGTON numbEr the of restrictive Immigrants De S 3 gy quota By V. V law Jaw P. P I Int the United States admitted during during- the past fiscal year was almost as before the law Was passed as lar large tf the e annual report of or Commissioner Immigration A Husband showed today of ot I S va V. V V aliens during the year against ere d 3 admitted ad- ad I 56 in 1922 and l ln In 1923 B Before Be- Be tore fore the law was passed te annual Influx n was close to one million The Tte Increase durIng the past year I due to arrivals was from Canada and other ther western hemisphere coin coun t iries rles which are not covered by the quota law according to Husband More and more immigrants are I com coming to the United States from north European countries while the quota law effectively bars the In Influx In- In I flux from the Mediterranean area tn-I tn the report shows English English speaking immigrants dur dur- t I I In ing the past year year aggregated or 28 3 per cent as as compared with or 8 S per Del cent In 1914 German immigrants numbered and Scandinavians totaled I 40 both big increases Further I increases from these regions are forecast under the new now law which went In effect last July 1 1 Southern and eastern Europe and Turkey which sent Bent Immigrants immigrants immigrants grants in 1914 alone contributed contribute only last year Emigrants from th the United States fell off oft In number only 76 re returning returning returning re- re turning to the old countries countries' durIn durIng during dur dur- In ing the year Before the war tho outgoing tide was about third one-third of ot the S Smuggling of ot aliens into this country continues to Increase Husband Husband Husband Hus Hus- band said No estimate of ot the number number num num- ber bel of aliens Illegally entering was was' given but the report pointed out an Index that desertions of alien aUen seamen from their ships in American Ameri Amen can ports totaled 31 last year I compared with a previous annual I average of ot when there were no restrictive laws I |