Revised quotas under the national origins law were submitted to Congress today by the President. They are embodied in a report by the Secretaries of State and Commerce and Labor, who are charged under the law with the preparation of such quotas. Importance is attached to them, as it is expected the movement to postpone the effective date will fail, and it is not known so far whether Mr. Hoover, as President, will place them in effect July 1 next.
The revised figures differ but slightly from those submitted in a report of February 25, 1928. The grand total of all quotas in the new report is 153,714, as against 153,685 in the report of 1928. The distribution by countries is changed in slight degree, although a number of the quotas are left unchanged.
In the following table the national origin quotas submitted by the President are shown in column A, the national origins quotas submitted on Feb. 27, 1928, are in coumn B, and the present quotas, based on the foreign born population of 1890, are in column C:
Country A. B. C.
Armenia 100 100 124
Australia 100 100 121
Austria 1,413 1,639 785
Belgium 1,304 1,328 512
Czehoslovakia 2,874 2,726 3,073
Danzig 100 137 228
Denmark 1,181 1,234 2,789
Estonia 116 100 124
Finland 569 568 471
France 3,086 3,308 3,954
Germany 25,957 24,908 51,227
Great Britain and Northern Ireland 65,721 65,894 34,007
Greece 307 312 100
Hungary 869 1,181 473
Irish Free State 17,853 17,427 28,567
Italy 5,802 5,989 3,845
Latvia 236 242 142
Lithuania 386 492 344
The Netherlands 3,153 3,063 1,649
Norway 2,377 2,403 6,453
Poland 6,524 6,090 5,982
Portugal 440 457 503
Roumania 295 311 603
Russia (European and Asiatic) 2,784 3,540 2,248
Spain 252 305 131
Sweden 3,314 3,399 9,561
Switzerland 1,707 1,614 2,081
Syria and the Lebanon 123 125 100
Turkey 226 233 100
Jugoslavia 845 739 671
Total 153,714 153,685 164,647 The totals for columns A and C include 37 minimum quotas of 100 each for 37 minor geographical subdivisions and Column B’s total includes 16.
Plans for the construction of a new synagogue in Wildwood, N. J., to cost $50,000, have been announced by Joseph Probinsky, chairman of the building committee of Beth Judah Temple. Construction will begin early next month.
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