Neither one of these gentlemen drew up this bill. neither one of them wrote a word of it. It says: In addition to the persons excluded under the foregoing sections. admission into the United States shall be denied to all persons over 15 years of age and physically capable of reading who can not read the English language or some other language. I want to state to these gentlemen who have been talking about Canada. in discussing another section of this bill. that you will have to have a man standing at the border with a primer and spelling blocks to see whether the immigrant is educated. "Every person coming into the United States must be able to read." That means a man coming from Canada or Mexico. and you could not enforce it if it passed. Now. in my time I would like to have the gentleman from Iowa state what he thinks about this proposed amendment. He was solicitor of the Treasury. and if you have any doubt about the constitutionality of this bill. refer to him.
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