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But if the gentleman wants to impress that kind of ain idea. I refer him to the result of the last clection. to meditate whether the declaration of the President elect. in the book to which the gentleman from Missouri referred. did not have something to do with the tremendous majority that lie received over the party that elected the gentleman from Missouri. I call attention to the further fact that a Republican Senate six months or more ago passed the bill with this same illiteracy test in it. a bill more drastic than the bill substituted by the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. a bill which a distinguished Republican member of the Committee on Rules said was too drastic for most of the Members of the House to support. And yet. in order to hold up this Democratic House to the opposition of those affected by the legislation. the gentleman astutely forgets the fact that the Republican Senate passed that bill by a vote of 58 in favor to 9 in opposition to it. Hence the gentleman may have all the sweet consolation that he desires from the action that is being brought about by reason of the fact that the Democrats control this Iouse.