I do not want to take the time of the Senate. but it is necessary to explain the point for a moment. They are very anxious to replace Japanese labor and Chinese labor with European labor. and are making every effort in that direction. The European labor they are getting Is chiefly Portuguese. and the percentage of illiteracy among the Portuguese happens to be higher than among any other immigrants. Therefore the imposition in Hawaii of the literacy test as framed in the bill they think would work a great hardship to them. It was the intention of the Senate committee to make an exception in that respect for the islands of Hawaii. but by an omission. foN which I suppose I am more responsible than anybody else. we took the amendment of the Senator from North Carolina in the place of our illiteracy amendment. anrd in accepting his we forgot to add the exception of Iawaii. which was in our bill.
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