Now. I want to say this. gentlemen: I see no objection to taking the question of an educational test up by itself. but it is my candid judgment that this bill ought not to meet with any riders at all. You also know that we have not revised the immigration laws for the last twentyfive years because certain elegant gentlemen of the East who have so many of these special features on their mind have persisted for years in forcing them to the front. and they kill every good measure by loading good bills down. Now. I believe. with the advice of some distinguished attorneys of this Housethe most distinguished. because I have never heard one of them deny itthat we can have an educationaltest bill that would be satisfactory to every person here. and we can do it in such a way that it will not interfere with the treaty obligations thit the United States has with other countries. I want to urge you now to consider first one thing. Would it not be better to defeat this educationaltest amendment now. entirely. and let it go back to the committee. and I will promise you a bill either for or against it? I do not know at this moment whether the members of the Committee on Immigration are for it or against it. Now. I want to correct a statement made by the gentleman from Indiana yesterday. when he said he had it from me that my committee was against it.
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