The trouble is that gentlemen say they want restriction. and whenever a proposal is made that will restrict then we find that they say it is the wrong kind of restriction. It is always something else that they wantanother kind of restriction. If it is the head tax. that is proposed. they say. "Oh. no. it should not be that. but some other kind." If it is the illiteracy test. they say. "Oh. no. try a head tax." If it is a flat limitation of numbers that is proposed. they claim that that is all wrong. Now they say they want a commission to study this question. I hold in my hand the report of the last Commission. Which one of you has ever read it? Which one of you knows from cover to cover a single word that that report contains? Immigration Commission? Why. here * is the report of the Senate. and here is the report of the House. and here is the report of the Industrial Commission. on immigration. And now gentlemen are talking this nonsense about having another commission. Mr.. Chairman. the fact is that at first I did not believe in an educational test myself. or at least I did not think that it was as good as a large head tax. But the committee thought otherwise. and they were very wise. because the head tax had not been fought out with the American people. The educational test has been fought out with the American people. The gentleman from Texas waves a letter in his hand and talks about "influences." He says that not onethird off this House would vote for that educational test if it were not for "influences." Let me read to you what happened before "influences" were tried.
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