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Show WML CAPITAL! W AFFAIRS B I Johnson on the New Immigration Bill WASHINGTON. The United States has no great need of Immigrants, says Representative Represent-ative Albert Johnson of Washington, chairman of the honse committee on Immigration. He enys concerning the new bill, in part: "I believe that we have taken a long step forward in the bill technically known as H. It. 101, which has Just been introduced Into the Sixty-eighth congress and referred to the committee on Immigration and naturalization, of which I have the honor to be chairman. This bill If passed may be cited as the selective Immigration act of 1924. ' '.'The new bill provides that all socially so-cially Inadequate aliens shall be weeded out at the source and that the burden of proof as to Inadequacy shall be placed on the alien rather than on the United States. "For the purposes of selection, all newcomers to the United States are divided into three general classes, 'non-quota,' 'quota,' and 'quota relatives.' rela-tives.' The first includes husbands, wives, fathers, mothers or unmarried minor children of American citizens, students, clergymen and some others. They do not count In the quotas. "A 'quota relative' Immigrant Is the husband, wife or unmarried minor child of an alien who has been legally admitted to the United States, lived here two years and taken out first papers. "The third class includes all others; that Is, the rank and flle coming to make a new home here. The number of those who may come In under the quota classes is thus denned: 'The terra quota, when used in reference to any nationality, means 200, and in addition ad-dition thereto 2 per centum of the number num-ber of foreign-born Individuals of such nationality resident in the United States as determined by the United States census of 1800. "The full quota under this proposed law might then be 4 per cent of the residents of that nationality as shown by the census of 18002 per cent of relatives, husbands, wives and minor children of aliens here two years and having first papers and 2 per cent of newcomers classed as quota." |