Mr. Presidentand that is a thing I want time to settle for myselfthat an educational test is the true test of the right of an individual to come to this country. As I am impressed at thistimeI thinkweoughtto have some restrictions. possibly more than we now have. on the right of immigration. but I can readily conceive that a very honest but possibly illiterate man may come to this country who has all the qualifications of making a good citizenhonest. industrious. peaceable. and well disposed to the Government -and yet his early surroundings may have been such that he wasunable to obtain an education in his own country sufficiently to enable him to read or to write. In such a case as that I am not prepared to say that an educated anarchist or criminal is preferable to such an individual as a citizen. That is one of the features of this bill I should like to examine. and I hope the Senator will ask unanimous consent to have the bill brought to a vote at some time next month. alter the Senate reconvenes. so that we may have ten days or two weeks to discuss it.
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