That is all right. -and I therefore will depart from. the thread of my discourse for a moment to give them consideration. The Senator himself introduced an amendment to this bill seeking to: modify the literacy test. and I believe if that amendment had been placed upon the bill the President would not have found it necessary to interpose his veto. I supported that amendment. It was an amendment which exempted from the literacy test those who come here to escape race persecution and who come to escape political persecution.. but the authors of .this bill were so desirous of restricting immigration that theyI say it without meaning to be offensivestubbornly refused to yield a single inch. and insisted upon excluding from this country those who flee here seeking refuge from the tyranny of other lands. I make the further observation that If labor Is being imported into the State of the Senator from Colorado by the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co.. or any other corporation or any Individual. the present Federal statutes are sufficient to punish drastically those guilty of the offense. But if the laws need strengthening In that respect I will go as far as the Senator from Colorado can go. or as any other man can go. to stop the importation of contract labor.
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