President. the Senator from Missouri is presumably arguing from the standpoint that this test will shut out all that class that he has so eloquently. described. The committee. and I am sure the Senate. would be delighted to admit and are in no way attempting to prohibit that great class. when moved by sentiment such as the Senator described. from coming here. when they are otherwise qualified. The literacy test is one of the elements which we propose to use to prove whether it is the splendid class to which the Senator refers which is coming. because I think the Senator is willing to admit with me that with the modern facilities for acquiring an education surely those whom he is here calling our attention to as a class should have acquired at least the rudimentary elements of reading and writing which this test prescribes. Of course there may be. exceptions. but we can not pass a law here to fit exceptions.
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