McCUmimiER. Under the terms of the bill as it reads it will bar the illiterate Christian. but it will admit the Illiterate Jew. if he can claim. of course. that he is a victim of religious persecution. This amendment recognizes tie literacy test by providing that if the religious persecution Involves a denial or a restriction of the means and opportunities of education. so that the immigrant is not enabled because of the laws or regulations of the foreign country against his sect or cla.tss to acquire the education sufficient to enable him to comply with the literacy test provided in the bill. he will nevertheless be admitted. I think I can corroborate what was said by the Senator from Wisconsin a while ago. that in certain Provinces or districts of Russia there ire those restrictions and those denials to the Jewish population of the means and opportunities of obtaining an education. I offer the amendment.
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