If the previous question had not been operating. it is perfectly clear to anyone that when it was proposed to strike out all of the bill and insert other language any amendment germane to the original bill would have been in order in the House. The previous question being in operation. no such amendment could be proposed. but any motion to recommit is in order. which would have been in order as an amendment if the previous question had not been operating. The proposition here was to strike out the entire Senate bill. a bill covering the general subject of immigration. It is true that no amendment could be offered in the House. because the previous question would shut out the right. but the motion to recommit was preserved. because the Committee on Rules could not report differently. Under section 5S73 of Hinds Precedents an amendment providing for an educational test for immigration was held to be germane to a bill to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States. The Chair. in ruling upon it. stated that it beinga general bill on the subject of immigration. it is not the province of the Chair to pass on the merits or demerits of any amendment or its wisdom or 4ustice. It appears to the Chair that this amendment is clearly. distinctly. and logically connected with the general scope of a bill regulating the immigration of aliens Into the United States. and under these circumstances the Chair feels constrained to overrule the point of order and hold that the amendment is germane to the bill.
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