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Excerpt from Facts About Immigration: Being the Report of the Proceedings of Conferences on Immigration Held in New York City, September 24 and December 12, 1906, by the Immigration Department of the National Civic Federation
Committee on Basal Statistics - While no hard and fast limits are prescribed for the province of this com mittee, its verified and rightly tabulated statements are to include those statistical facts which are most im portant in themselves and most significant as basis of inference. The Chairman Of this committee is Dr. Walter F. Willcox, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
Committee on the Facts of Supply and Demand. This committee is to show the actual relation of immi gration to the country's needs, not only as to quantity and quality of supply, but also as to localities to be supplied. Its province includes the facts concerning the sources Of immigration, and the distribution Of the immigrants. The investigation is to embrace both the past and the present. The chairman of this com mittee is Mr. Thomas W. Slocum, Of New York City.
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