(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
President Coolidge signed Senate Joint Resolution No. 152, on Friday, postponing for one year the application of the national origins provision of the Immigration Act. The national origins clause, designed to readjust the quotas of immigrants on the basis of the countries of their origins, would have gone into effect on July 1, without the legislation suspending the section. The resolution was accepted by the House on March 3 by a record vote of 232 to 111.
Under the method now employed the annual quota of immigrants of any nationality is 2 per cent of the number of foreign-born individuals of such nationality resident in the United States as determined by the census of 1890. The Immigration Act of 1924 provided that after July 1, 1927, the national origins method of fixing immigration quotas should be used, provided the President should issue a proclamation announcing the quotas of different nations. The question arose as to whether the law makes it mandatory on the President to issue such a proclamation.
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