The New York Legislature and the people of New York State can amend their constitution. if they agree with the two Senators from New York that it is unjust. Mr. President. I was struck by the argument of the junior Senator from New York that the New York literacy test is an arbitrary restriction on voting. A threejudge Federal courtto whose opinion I shall allude again In a momenthad the argument made before it that New Yorks English literacy test is unreasonable. Here is what that court said on the subject. I read from page 159 of 199 Federal supplement: The statute is not an unreasonable exercise of the powers of the States to provide requirements for exercising the elective franchise.
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