That is a good question. and I am glad that I yielded. The literacy test is this: All aliens over 10 years of age. physically capale of reading. who can not read the English language or some other language or dialect. including Hebrew or Yiddish. As I said to the House. that keeps out 50 per cent of the South Italians. and so on. Now. for tie first time. the connittee has put in a new provision. that takes in all of page S and iuore. which upon its face apparently admits every Hebrew who wants to come except those living in Galicia . but. whether by accident or design. the committee. by a provision on page 1.9. has excluded everyone whomi they purport to admit. Page 1.9 absolutely nullities page 8. I do not know whetler ti .committee knows that or not. When I was abroad one of the things I studied was the way that immigrant tickets are sold. After I came back I studied it. and while I was out of the House amongst my clients were some steamship companies. and I studied it some more. This is the way the tickets are bought: A little agent in a small town back in Greece.
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