Mr. President. I should like to ask the distinguished Senators composing the conference committee on the part of the Senate what earthly meaning. what earthly connection in the sense that it is germane. section 4 of this conference report has to the illiteracy test which is intended to be submitted to the immigrant? It was an educational test which the Senate directed the conferees to report upon. It was an educational test to which the immigrant was to be subjected. You have done all that after repeated endeavors..and now. when the alien is "capable and qualified." you want to starve him to death! What earthly sentiment are you after gratifying when there is inserted here this: SEc. 4. That it shall hereafter be unlawful for any male alien who has not in good faith made his declaration before the proper court of his intention to become a citizen of the United States to be employed oii an public works of the United States. or to come regularly or habitually into the United States by land or water for the purpose of engaging in any mechanical trade or manual labor. for wages or salary. returning from time to time to a foreign countryclogging the progress and development of a proper restriction of immigration. as I submit in this connection. with the absolute requirement of an appeal to the courts to determine a question which ought not to be submitted under such considerations if restriction of immigration is intended? It is for the courts alone to determine what and who are those who come regularly or habitually into the United States by land or by water. Section 5 is one of the most drastic of all the sections of the bill under this conference report. imposing a penalty upon the sacred right of a man to earn his daily bread by the sweat of his brow. taking away from him absolutely two of those inalienable rights which belong to him by virtue of his individuality and not by virtue of citizenship.
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