Let me give you the reasons why the House voted it down. At the very time when the bill was pending there was an alleged religious persecution going on in Bulgaria. so we all could see Very clearly what would happenif ive struck out the word "solely." Anyone coming from Bulgaria could at that time have readily evaded an Illiteracy test. If there had been any. by the simple declaration to the inspector of immigration that he was fleeing from religious persecution. Think of what a field for the exercise of the Individual judgment of each inspector you will open if you strike out the word "solely." The inspector Will have to make up his mind asto whether the major motive actuating each illiterate Incoming immigrant isa desire to escape religious persecution or whether that is merely a minor motive: We have copied this word "solely" from the English statute regulating the admission of persecuted aliens. That statute has: been inforce -for a good many years and has proved hard to evade. For the first time.
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