The United States Chamber of Commerce passed a resolution favoring the repeal of the National Origins provision of the Immigration Law of 1924.
The resolution carried a recommendation for continuance of the quota limit system now in operation, based upon 2 per cent of foreign-born living in the country in 1890.
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