Speech #640216031

I will say to the Senator from Missouri that there have been no radical changes made In the bill by the Senate committee from the body of the bill as It came over from the House. In one particular we made a change. where we inserted certain lines of longitude and latitude to exclude the zone which it was agreed by a vote of the Senate and the House should be excluded. There has also been. to meet the objection of some who opposed the bill before. a change in the verbiage referring to the literacy test that I think will meet some of the objections heretofore made to It. I also think that the provisions of the bill in reference to political offenses have been so worked out that they will meet. in part at least.. certain objections of the Executive. who vetoed the bill when it went to him before. The amendment to which the Senator from Missouri has called my attention -seems to be one that could be readily prepared and put before the Senate upon .its merits.