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The Senator from South. Carolina [Mr. SrnTn]. chairman of the committee. on yesterday called attention to the fact that in 95 years only 14.000 -immigrants had. come to this country -from Africa. and that if the literacy test had been applied to them 83 per cent of them would not have been admitted. So that. as I said on yesterday. the number is absolutely negligible. and it does not seem to me that legislation with regard to them is at all necessary. Turning to Senate Document 662. Sixtyfirst Congress. third session. entitled "Dictionary of Races or Peoples." I find. on page 101. this language: The immigration statistics of the race are of no significance so far as Africa Is concerned. for only 15 are recorded as having come from that eontinent in 1907. The Senator from Massachusetts suggests to me aside that in 10 years there have been only 712 immigrants of all kinds from Africa. That does not seem to be a great peril to our institutions. That there is a considerable immigration from Portuguese territory. the Azores. and the Cape Verde Islands is beyond a doubt true. although that number. according to this document. is inconsequential. being only 341 In 1907. The Senator from Missouri. I believe. Intends to offer a further amendment excluding those people. Again quoting the Senator from Massachusetts . who is a member of the Committee on Immigration. lie tells me that in 10 years there have been 8.000 immigrants from those islands or that territory. which Is of some consequence. but-