AMERICAN IMMIGRATION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15459, 2 March 1921, Page 5

AMERICAN IMMIGRATION.

PROPOSALS OF THE NEW RESTRICTION LAW. WASHINGTON, Jan. 9- —An im yortant piece of legislation now undei ray and lively to be .adopted is intend id to restrict immigration. We have een alarmed by tho suclden influx o; iliens. We fear that more are coming ban we data readily assimilate; anc ust at the moment we are struck by ;.he beginnings of what promises' to b.» i prolonged and intense business degression, during which we shall no e able to provide a market for tlii labor of these immigrants. For re itricting the rush many plans are pro josed. One goes so far as to cut oil ill immigration of any'kind for a period >f. one or two 'years', ahd to use the interval for the working out of a careel _ plan for' the permanent regulation of immigration. The Bill making this provision ha! already passed the lower House of Con R’ess, and iff riow pending in the Sen ate. 'Another plan is based upon at: ingenious device for limiting! immigrn ion, without wholly prohibiting .it, and For getting the sort of immigrants wc desire, while at the same timo oxcludug tlie bulk of the kind if immigrants vo do not desire. This plan proposes to fix a limit to the number of immi grants who will be permitted to conic in from any one country. In the ease of each country the number permitted is a percentage of the number already hero. ■' This plan Would permit practically unlimited immigration frdm those coun 1 ries from which wo already have had in the past a largo number of immigrants. It would permit the immigration of as many as are likely to wish to come from England, Ireland, Wales, tho Scandinavian countries and Germany. On tho other hand, it would limit severely the number coming from the countries of Fhslern Europe. It is only comparatively' recently’ that, Ru 6 sia, Poland, and other countires _of Eastern Europe, have been sending immigrants to us, and the number al ready here is not large. ,