Speech #540123376

I am opposed to it. but I have no desire to endanger the legislation by involving it in needless opposition and delays on one or two points which are not absolutely vital. I am still more anxious that this conference report. which I am obliged by my position and by the stage which it has reached in legislation to press. should not be where it is that the committee would stand by it. and it was a disappointgoing to block other important measures and add to the confusion ment to the friends of the amendment when the conference repoAt now existing in regard to them- came in without it. It is a great hardship. as has already been I do not wish to be unreasonable. although I feel very strongly suggested by the Senator from Maryland. that an immigrant comon the subject. and I will consent to the proposition made by the ing into one of our ports with a wife or minor child over the age Senator from New York. and will move that the Senate nonconcur of 16 years who can not read and write should be obliged to leave in the report of the conference committee and ask for a further his wife or child and come in by himself. and it is a very poor conference with the House of Representatives. consolation to him to know that he can bring his illiterate grand-