In answer to the gentleman from Illinois. I want to say that in part the same objections possibly were made. but not in the whole. If the gentleman from Illinois remembers. about five years ago. on the floor of this House. men who were then opposing the literacy test. as men are opposing the literacy test now. opposed a bill similar in character to the bill now under consideration. and succeeded in having a commission appointed to investigate the whole subject of immigration. That commission was appointed. composed of three Memhers of the House. three Members of the Senate. and three men appointed by the President of the United States. And after four years of investigation by them in this country and in Europe the commission came to the unanimous conclusion that there was an oversupply of unskilled labor in this country. and that the foreign Immigration should be largely curtailed.
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