Chairman and gentlemen of the committee. I have prepared an amendment substantially the same as the amendment offered by the gentleman from Oklahoma . and I now desire to make a few remarks in support of the latter. The law as it now reads is: That the following classes of persons shall be exempt from the operation of the literacy test. to wit. all persons who shall prove to the satisfaction of the proper Immigration officer or to the Secretary of Labor that they are seeking admission to the United States solely for the purpose of escaping religious persecution. Now. this amendment changes that. and the first important part of the change is to leave out the word "solely." The gentleman from Massachusetts says that when a man comes from a country where it was claimed there was religious persecution it would be a very easy matter for him to say that he came because of that religious persecution. Why would it not be just as easy for him to say that he came solely because of that persecution. if he is going to perjure himself?
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