We can not be deprived of opportunity that the House will have a chance to go on record on the important questions in the bill. This is an amendment to the Senate bill. The Senate bill provides an educational qualification. and it provides for a head tax. and even if these provisions of the substitute are stricken out in the Committee of the Whole House the bill must go to conference finally. and when it comes back from conference the issue of a head tax and an educational test will come directly before the House and a roll call will he in order. and every Member will have an opportunity to express his opinion in a record vote. Therefore I say to those who believe that this measure is in the interest of the countrk. and that it ought to be passed before we adjourn and go home. the wise course for us to pursue is to accept the rule. good or bad. because in the end it has the effect of bringing the two Houses together and ultimately will result in giving us an opportunity to determine what kind of an amendment we want to the present immigration laws. . In my opinion no legislation has come before this House for its consideration in many years past of greater importance to the coming generations of American citizens than the bill now under consideration. which proposes to restrict foreign immigration coming into this country. Rich lands. great rivers. and mineral wealth have never been the test of a nations greatness. A country to be great must be occupied by great people.
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