Mr. President. I think the needs of the South and the West require a larger amount of immigration than now comes to them. and I think that any law not manifestly and obviously necessary to the common weal of a country. excluding immigrants from that country. is unnecessary and indefensible. I further think that any attempt to modify the law so as to admit that very class of persons whom we are most anxious to admit. to wit. political refugees. who would be excluded upon the ground of illiteracy. shows the danger of altering or impairing in any wise the laws as they now stand.
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