New Enactment Enforced' Dew pite Protest of President HOON. SPECIAL serv tee Washington, July 18
Over the protest of Hoover, the Nation with regard to immi went into effect to-day Tt had been the contention of President that data on which tas new law was based could not this time be considered to giver adequate information for an equi! able and beneficial working of the law, Mr, Hoover wished to delay application of the national origins. provision until further statistics: could be obtained.
The law, in particular, reduced the present quotas of immigrants allowed to enter each year from Ireland, Sweden, Norway and Deas mark, Tt increased the quotas fra Poland, Belgium and Ital Opponents of the law asserted' that it would not carry out the Intention of its framers, who hoped' to shape the stream of immigration such a fashion as to let the nas tion build up along the lines of earlier development, They thougitt that by taking the year 1890 as guide for this, they could control immigration ina way proportionate: to the make-up at that time, President Hoover and other feared, however, that the result. the law would be to cut down many stocks generally thought to ba? highly desirable—United Press,
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