I can not conceive of a greater hardshipnay. of a greater inhuman actto a father or mother than to be compelled to leave behind him or her their boy who has been. under the laws of the foreign country. unfortunately denied opportunity for education. a boy. say. but a few days over 16 years. is to be excluded. while the rest of the family. females. may be admitted. Yet if this bill becomes a law such would be the deplorable situation in many and many a case. While some gentlemen on the Committee on Immigration of this House have talked so much about their desire not to allow unnecessary separation of families and have professed in words deep solicitude for keeping families together as amatter of colnmon humanity. yet some of these same gentlementwo of them members of the conference committeewould work the hardship that I have pointed out. The illiteracy test. as has been so often stated. and as we reiterate this morning. is neither a test of fitness nor of character. The conditions of the country do not require that such test shall be imposed.
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