Session #63 · 1913–15

Speech #630385014

Including Hebrew or Yiddish. Those are the classes of people to be excluded. Then ther e is a certain proviso which does not apply until you come down to the nineteenth line on page 8. and that provision reads: T.bat for the purpose of ascertaining whether aliens can read the Immigrant inspectors shall be furnished with slips of uniform size. prepared under the direction of the Secretary of Labor. each containing not less than 30 nor more than 40 words in ordinary use printed in plainly legible type in some one of the various languages and dialects of immigrants. Each alien may designate the particular language or dialect in .which he desires the examination to be made. and. shall be laws. and. without reviving it to -their minds. by reading themrequired to read the words printed on the slip in such language or dreary excerpts from the books. how well do they remember. dialect. that hordes of individuals. in numbers. schools. classes. circles.. . If the immigrant reads the words printed upon that slip. as and communities. were all prepared as to certain forms of I understand there is no discretion vested in the inspector. he interrogatories and certain forms of answers by which the law. must admit the immigrant. and if he fails to read them..then was violated wholesale. through these instrumentalities.. Suphe must be excluded. posing that these particular slips are prepated and the slips..
Keywords matched
Immigrant immigrants immigrant

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
GEORGE SUTHERLAND
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
UT
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
630385014
Paragraph
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