Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-03-17 | Page 15 | Big Reduction in Immigration Aim of Johnson

IN IMMIGRATION N AIM Of JOH JOHNSON ON i x F Foreigners Undermine Morals I and Ideals of U. U f Senator Charges f. f By FREDERIC FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE for The Te Telegram Mardi 1 Alleg 17 All li g- g tile me morals Id ideals al literature litera- litera ture and even fie fhe physical stature or of the Am Amer- Amer rl- rl I Gan can people are being steadily under under- by foreign blood or of tine the AlbErt Johnson Republican Washington will ask the seventieth Congress for tor new and drastic cur cur- ot of immigration The bill p he will push to to that end wo would ld f cut cut the present total or of ad- ad ni aliens roundly to tb approximately it would limit the maximum Quota for any I country countr af after er Jul July 1 1928 to which woul I more than halve the existing largest larget quota that of Germany Germany Ger- Ger many 1227 The Quota of Great Britain and north northern rn Ireland now would also be seriously affected af- af The Irish Free States State's Immigrant immigrant Im- Im migrant allowance would be whittled whit whit- tIed down clown b by more than per annum Mr Johnson the Veteran chairman chairman chair chair- man ot of the house immigration committee committee com com- and principal author of the Immigration law of 1924 now In force proposes that all all' quotas shall be reduced 10 per cent a year after altel Jul July 1 1928 and until J July 1 19 1933 3 After Arter that year year five period the Johnson bill would res restrict the annual annual an- an nual quota of an any nationality to 1 per cent of number of foreign foreign- born individuals of such resident in the United States States' as determined determined de- de by by- bythe the 1890 census