Mr. Chairman. this test is fair. and it is certain. The law excluding those liable to become a public charge. referred to by gentlemen on this floor. is .of such a character that the immigrant does not know whether he will be declared a public charge until he gets here. but every man before he leaves the other side knows whether he can read his own language or dialect. and the steamship companies. who say that they do not know whether people are Insane or diseased. can easily know whether these people can read their own language or dialect. and. they will see to it that they are kept out if they can not read. It has been said by the gentleman from Minnesota that this test would do nothing. as the steamships would simply substitute the literate alien for the illiterates. If the steamship companies do not think there are teeth in this bill. why is It that their agents with gum shoes are going through this Capitol and through the Office Building trying to thwart the passage of the bill?
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