I am no alarmist by nature. but I am alarmed. deeply alarmed. by the possibilities contained in this bill. Here we are in the last days of a dead Congress. whose successors have been elected. trying to crush through. with all the force of a majority reckless of consequences. a bill which uncontradictedly proposes to buy ships which have escaped to our ports for the purpose of avoiding capture. The President can find nopopular mandate for a literacy test in the immigration bill. and stated. out of the abundance of his knowledge. that it had never been proposed by a political party. It was proposed in precise terms. as the Senator from New Hampshire has shown. by the Republican Party in 1896. We went to the country on that and the other issues of the day and were not defeated.
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