President. attention has been so concentrated upon time illiteracy test that it is very easy to overlook the great importance of the rest of the bill. which would all be lost if the veto should bo sustained. The administrative provisions represent the work of years. they embody the best conclusions of what the President calls a very "able commission." which devoted three years of hard work and careful investigation to this subject. At the time of the last immigration act. in 1907. this same matter of an illiteracy test for admission was presented to Congress. It was then determined by the committees and by Congress that it was not wise to introduce the test into legislation without a special and further examintion of conditions. A commission of nine members was appointed. three from the Senate. - three from the House. and the Commissioner of Labor. Dr. Jenks. professor at Cornell. a very distinguished publicist and statistician. and Mr. Wheeler. afterwards Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Labor.- That commission worked for three years . it employed experts through all parts of the country to examine every phase of immigration and the condition of the immigrant population. it sent a subcommittee abroad to investigate conditions at all the sources of immigration. The commission made a - report of great value which fills 40 volumes. giving all the statistics and all the facts. f I mention this. Mr.
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