In one other conference the whole matter can be remedied in five minutes by simply restoring the text of the House bill in the terms I have just mentioned. namely: "All male persons "-that would admit the wife-" all male persons who can not read and write the English or some other language." This would meet both objections. To confine the test to male persons was deem6d advisable by the House because of the great demand for female servants all over the country which existed then and which exists now. There are some other provisions to which the press has raised objectionthe one. for example. which provides for the reading and -writing of parts of the Constitution of the United States. because that instrument contains so many technical terms and rare words difficult to be comprehended by the average immigrant. Suppose that one of the slips provided for in this bill should contain the words. "No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed." I claim. Mr. Speaker. that you might as well hand to the immigrantsay an Irish farm hand or a plain German mechanica stone with Assyrian cuneals or Egyptian hieroglyphics upon it as to ask him to translate. or rather to read. this provision of the Constitution in another language.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization about immigrants' ability to understand complex legal language.