Mr. President. I am very happy that the Senator Interrupted me. as he has stated my own view much more clearly than I -possibly could have stated it myself. and. he has stated it out of the fullness of a larger experlence than it has been my privilege to have As an eminent Jurist. before whom Immigrants have come In the years that have gone. he has had an opportunity to study their character and fitness for citizenship. and he says that literacy is not the appropriate test. I said a little while ago that the Senator from Delaware put into the RECORD: about two years ago some. very striking facts. .which I am going to read. He then said: Some years ago I had occasion to examine the muster. rolls of the .Continental line of the Revolutionary Army. and I discovered that in many companies as high as .75 to 80 per cent of the soldiers were illiterates and foreigners.
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