It does. and the present bill strengthens that law and makes it much more effective. I want to say in connection with the Senators inquiry that this bill. in addition to the literacy test. embraces all the recommendations that were made by the Immigration Commission of 1907. no one of which has ever as yet been enacted into law. sadly as they are needed. simply because President Taft. on the recommendation of a Cabinet officer. vetoed the former bill and because the veto in this case has been interposed by President Wilson. The country has been waiting for the last four years -for legislation that will strengthen the existing law and make it more effective. The President admits this in his message. because he says it has many admirable features. I have a list of the many recommendations which I might incorporate in my remarks except for the time it would take to read them. but I state broadly that all the advantages intended to have flowed from the action of the Immigration Commission. which gave three years of hard study to this work and gathered a fund of information which had never before been brought. together on this subject in the history of our legislation. All. I say. of the commissions recommendatiois have been incorporated in this bill. and they go down with the literacy test. Speaking in reply to the inquiry of the Senatoi from South Dakota as to the right of asylum. let me add that the bill itself provides: That nothing in this act shall exclude. If otherwise admissible. persons convicted of an offense purely political. not involving moral turpltude.
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