Mr. Speaker. the subject of restriction of undesirable immigrants is becoming more serious every year. and the people of the whole country are becoming greatly aroused on the subject. The Ilouse Committee on Immigration a few weeks ago reported a bill following in part the recommendations of the Immigration Commission created by an act of Congress several years ago. This bill simply requires that alien Immigrants over 16 years old be able to read their own language or dialect. There are provisions in the bill excepting from its operation near relatives of admissible immigrants. The bill is very conservative and will tend to keep out only those who. according to the report of the commission. ought not to be admitted. The friends of this bill sought to secure a rule from the Committee on Rules to provide for consideration of the bill by the House of Representatives. This rule was never gran ted. and again the country has the spectacle of a gag rule preventing a free and just consideration of the most important question now before the American people. How long will the people endure this? As part of these remarks I submit a copy of the statement which I made before the Rules Committee on the bill. also a brief prepared by the secretary of the Immigration Restriction League in favor of the illiteracy test:
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