Now. as I said. the illiteracy test does not come into this question now. because it has been settled. The gentleman from New York has made an appeal. warning us against getting the bill into such shape that the President will veto it. foretelling a veto because it contains the provision he objected to. The gentleman seems to have changed his views in regard to the poor immigrants. Heretofore he posed as the great friend of the poor immigrant. but only the other day. when our conference agreement gave the immigrant until the 1st day of July to study this bill and prepare for its requirements. the gentlemans desire to pose as a great parliamentarian got the better of his love for the poor immigrant. and largely at his instafice the bill was sent back to conference. and we were forced to make it effective May 1. two months shorter time than the conferees desired to give him. Now. the gentleman is foretelling What the President is going to do to the bill because we have in it a provision which he criticizes in regard to the Japanese. Mr. Speaker. the President vetoed the bill two years ago. but -at that time we had in the bill a reference to a gentlemans agreement and excluding those who could not become citizens by naturalization. And yet our President then made no reference whatever to that as being any ground for his veto. The gentleman from New York is mistaken and is stirring up an unnecessary mares nest when he talks about our undertaking to embarrass or to Insult the great. brave Japanese people.
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