Speech #630132284

I want to agree with that. but the Chairman of the Committee of the Whole. Mr. HAY. answered the gentleman from Pennsylvania by saying that it had come down to a proposition where we must vote "yes" or "no." Therefore I take my stand with those who will .vote for this bill. for while I had hoped and worked as hard as I could in the committee to substitute some method which I was positive would be more certain than this very light literacy test will be. I shall support this bill on account of the JSANuARY 30. clause in it that I am about to read. if for no other cause. It is on page 38 and is numbered section 19. I read: That any alien. at any time within five years after entry. who shall enter the United States in violation of law. any alien who within five years after entry shall be found advocating or teaching the unlawful destruction of property. or advocating or teaching anarchy. or the overthrow by force or violence of organized government or the assassination of public officials 0 * * shall. upon the warrant of the Secretary of Labor. be taken into custody and deported. My friends. in my opinion that clause makes the bill well worth while. Personally. I am for a rigid restriction of immigration. not necessarily undesirable. It is time to put up the bars. My personal opinion is that a 40word test. which is to be read and not written down. will not be sufficient. will not keep out the numbers that we hope it will. I have filed in a separate report my views as to the necessity for the words "and writing" in this literacy test. I urge consideration of the deportation clause. In my opinion the troubles in the United States in the last few years have been caused by those who have arrived lately. just as Sedgwick. of Massachusetts. prophesied 120 years ago they would come. who. before they can by any circumstances be taken into the full breadth and freedom and meaning of our institutions in the United States. have turned against us and gone out on the soap boxes and preached the overthrow and destruction of this Government. My friends. the time has come to put up the bars.