Speech #620115401

I think the Senator would not like to do injustice to the Senate Committee on Immigration. He knows. of course. that the members of that committee who were also members of tile immigration commission are heartily in favor of the retention in the bill of the educational test. and of the other. memibers ot that committee I suppose it is true that they also favor it. There were those who thought that the retention of that provision in the bill would endanger its passage. and 0here are administrative features of the bill which are so important that they thought it would be better to drop this particular feature from the bill and present it as an independent measure. which has been done by the Senator from Massachusetts . I did not want the impression to go out from the Senators remarks that the Senate committee. as a committee. are opposed necessarily or as a whole. at least. to this feature of the bill. and I did not want anyone to think that I am opposed to it. because I put it into the original bill and I favor it now. I shall be glad to cooperate with the Senator from North Carolina in all his efforts to retain it in the bill.