U.S.A. IMMIGRATION

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 74, 25 September 1922, Page 6

U.S.A. IMMIGRATION

AMENDMENTS TO LAW

DOMINION'S ANNUAL QUOTA, 600 EACH.

(BMTED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTRIGHT.)

(AUSTRALIAN New rKAUND CARLE ASSOCIATION.) • WASHING-TON, 23rt) Sept. Mr. Johnston, Chairman of the House of B«pr«sentatives Immigration Committee, before the adjournment of the House, presented important suggestions for the amendment of the Dillingham Immigration Law. The most notable are :—

- Reduction of the entrants to 2 per cent, or li per cent., but giving all the British Dominions a fixed approximate quota of 600 -each annually; Treatment of families as units; Admittance of wife or husband and children of any alien permanently resident in the United States;

-More stringent application of the literary test and physical examination; Change of the monthly percentage of each quota to 10 instead of 20, thus eliminating the phenomenon of a country's quota being completely exhausted in the first five months of each year; Authorisation of administrative discretion in the determination of nationality ;

Exclusion of Hindus, Chinese, Japanese, and all Oriental peoples that cannot become citizens ultimately.