Pennsylvania. Tennessee. Vermont. and others have passed resolutions favoring the literacy test. and have memorialized Congress for the passage of this legislation. Was the movement on the part of these legislatures antiCatholic? Does the gentleman mean to have this House understand that the eight members of the Immigration Commission who recommended this very legislation were trying to discriminate against the Catholic religion when every Catholic on the commission recommended It and when the only dissenting voice was that of an ardent Presbyterian? The gentleman might add to the sum total of human knowledge by telling this House why he wrongfully charged the Junior Order of American Mechanics with being a new A. P.
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