Dir:.lINGHAII]. I recall that the history ofthis whole legislation discloses that the Senator from Vermont. as chairman of this committee in the preceding Senate. had occasion to make a number of reports. In his very able presentation on yesterday we discover that the Senators remarks include. first. the commission of 1882. which made representations to the country settingforth the class of immigration that was undesirable. But the commission of 1907. by a strange turn in the wheel of possibilities. appears to recommend as wholly available those who in 182 were denounced. and finds a new order in 1.907 as the objectionable ones. The Senator from Vermont produces a table. which I dare say can not be disputed. which discloses that in the one census taken at the time of the first immigration 14 per cent of these individuals could not read. but immediately following. in the very next census. only 3 per. cent of the same. This shows you very clearly. my brother Senators. that after arriving in the country they had been here but a short while when their illiteracy very largely decreased. and they became sufficiently learned to be placed in the category of the learned of our citizenship. Moreover. any elements of objection which had prevailed at the time of the commission of 1882 had been wholly removed. or so largely that in 1907 those who were the subjects of denunciation in the first report were the objects of comiendation il the second.
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