Which the Senator from Colorado has temporarily withdrawn. and. the incorporation of the word "racial" will. absolutely negative the operation of the literacy test as Incorporated In the bill by the committee. Our object wasand it might just as jvell be understood now as at any other time. as I tried to poipt out here the other afternoon before the close of the last discussion of this matterto apply the test or the evidence of the best citizenship in this country to those who come from abroad. If It be true. as was held by some on this floor. that an education. eveii In the rudimentary form of the power to read and write. is not essential to citizenship. then this tremendous expense which our Government in every one of Its political divisions has incurred has been a farcical waste..
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