Mr. Speaker. believing that the objections of the President of the United States to the immigration bill are founded on sound common sense. that they are conceived in the spirit of humanity and American patriotism. and are in complete accord with American principles. I shall vote to sustain the Presidents veto. The legislation proposed is unnecessary. harsh. ill considered. and objectionable. It is at last conceded by its advocates that the literacy test is intended as an exclusion measure and that it furnishes no test of character. It is intended under such a test to exclude. however physically and mentally and morally sound they may be. the illiterate foreigners from entrance to our shores. Such a bill violates the traditions of our Republic.
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