I do not think the amendment reaches what the gentleman from New York wishes to reach. He does not say that those people shall be admitted. He simply says that they shall not be deported. which is a very different proposition. There is nothing in that amendment. to my mind. which will admit the people the gentleman wants to have admitted. Now. I want to say that If an exception is carefully drawn to prevent the educational test applying to these unfortunates I shall not oppose it. if it be carefully guarded and dran. but that is very different from applying it to this bill at tlN stage. because it undoes existing legislation. It throws the 4oor open to every one who is .coming in now and who is excludqd as likely to become a public charge. I am informed that th immigration bureau seriously objects to its being inserted idi this paragraph. I do not know. nor do I believe. that they object to its insertion in the educationaltest paragraph. The educational test is a new test. and if it is adopted it might be very proper to make this exception. but if it be put in in the present place. it will weaken existing law instead of maintaining it where it ought to be maintained. and where we all know it ought to be maintained.
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