Speaker. I think that this bill is a very good illustration of how the Republican party proposes to take care of the under dog in tile fight. Some few years ago a proposition was before this House to restrict foreign immigration coming into the United States and to protect the American laborer against the pauper labor of Europe. The Democratic party was in favor of an educational test to restrict immigration coming to this country. A large number of the Republican party on that bill offered section 42. that you are now proposing to repeal. as an offset to the proposition to restrict immigration coming into this country by an educational test. You said you proposed to increase the air space in these ships. to provide better accommodations for the immigrants coming to the United States. and at the same time restrict the number of immigrants who were coming to America. and on that basis the House divided oil this aisle and you defeated the immigration test by seven votes and at the same time declared to the country that this section 42 for an increase of air space for the immigrants was the thing that would protect American labor against the pauper labor of Europe and at the same time be a humanitarian statute and take care of the immigrants who came to this country. But you provided in this same statute that section 42 should not take effect until January. 1909. You put a joker in that law and now you are about to draw the joker out of your sleeve and play it on the political card table.
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