Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-26
IMMIGRANT FLOOD
Is CHECKED UNTIL
NEXT FISCAL YEAR
Most Of Quotas Exhausted,
Only Few Can Enter U, S.
Stoppage Is First in the
Nations History
BY HADEN COLFAX
downright, 1924, by the Consolidated Press
Association-Special Leased Wire
to The Atlanta Journal)

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Association-Special Leased Wire
to The Atlanta Journal.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 29-No .5re
immigrants, barring a few scattered
handfuls. will be admitted to the
United States during the current fls'
cal year which ends June 30, next,
according to information made pub
lie today by the departmnt of labor
All Europe, except for Scandinavia
and France, with a sprinkling of a
few scores of hundreds Of immi
grants elsewhere, has exhausted its
quota for the current year.
The list of admissibles stood ter
days ago-latest date on which fig
ures were compiled-at 1922 per
sons, distributed mainly as follows
From Denmark, 1928; from Estho
MIA 799; from France i, $50; from Nor
way 1921 and from Sweden 1,082
The remaining 1900 which may be
admitted to the country prior TIC
June 80 are divided among Armenia,
Austria, Hungary, leland, Latvla'
Jugo Slavia and Turkey.
Within the next ten days, it is ex-
pected. the remaining quotas will be
exhausted so that from then on I'M
til July /, about four months, imm1.
grafton to the United States Will
have ceased absolutely.
First Time in History
1t will be the first time in the
history of the country, it is believed,
that the human tides will have
ceased to roll against the shores OF
America.
Under the present immigration
law, which expires June 80 next, the
number of a6missibles is restricted
to per cent of the nationals Of any
country in the United States at the
time the census of 1910 was taken.
The total which may be admitted IN
any one year has been figured out
by the department of labor at $751;
SO3
The total is apportioned among
the various European and other Ia
tons affected by the law South
America is not affected in quotas
fixing the limit of immigration from
each country. The highest is the
quota of Great Britain and Ireland
77,342 persons, the next Germany
with 67,587. while Italy with an an
nual quota of 42057, Poland with
80, 977, Russia with 24.4G5, Sweden
with 20,042, Czecho-Slovakia with
1887 and Norway with 12,202 fol
low in the = der named. Each of the
Sc nations affected has an annual
quota of less than 10000; seventeen
have quotas of less than 1000.
1 ;,.l,t ffrK, .
named above has not exhausted her
1924 quota and even in her case the
quota is 95 per cent exhausted.
Under the labor departments rul
ings, not more than one-fifth of q
nations annual quota may be adj
mitted in any one month. Because
of this ruling, no nation can eX'
haust its quota in less than five
months. The ruling was made ia
prevent an overflow of immigrants
in the rush to get in, from flooding
immigration officers immediately
after July l each year. Were it lot
for this check, undoubtedly hundreds
of thousands of aliens would descend
upon New York and other ports dur
ing the rirst two weeks of July and
virtually none at all during the re
naming fifty weeks of the year.
Annual Steamer Race
Even with this check. the annual
race among steamer. to reach New
York in the early morning hours of
July 1 each year is participated in by
from ten to twenty vessels, each
laden with immigra Some OF
these vessels. reaching sight OF
land before midnight of June 80, lie
just outside the port and finish their
trips within a few minute after the
stroke of the clock ushering in q
new fiscal year.
AS evidence of the pressure abroad
to obtain admitta- ce to the United
States the departments records
show that during the current fisca,
year, Great Britain exhausted her
quota within two days after the ear.
lest possible date, or November ;.
Italy'S quota was exhausted / eCl L
Der 6; that of Holland, December 9;
Russia, December Is; Greece. Deem
Der s; Poland, December 81, and Ger
many January 81. No more immt,
grants from i-nv of those nations y II
be admitted to the United States UNI
til July 1, next. Before that date
the present law will be extended or a
new law enacted. Propose : looking
to a new law contain restrictions
which would reduce still further The
number of abmissibles to two per
cent of the nationals numbered IN
the 1890 census. Such a law Is likely
to be enacted at this session of con
gress.
How effectually the bars will then
be up is shown by the estimate that
less than 100000 persons would be
admissible, under such a law as com
pared with S57 900 this year, S05,00
in 1901 ond / o1S n in 1014