I do not believe that I am. However. one of the minor atrocities of the pending bill is that. sailing along here under the guise of enforcing the 15th amendment. we launch out into a wholly different territory and argee to what I call the New York State amendment. On the other hand. we propose to go into a State in which there is no charge of any kind of racial discrimination and dip down Into the net very deeply. to check the qualifications they have established for citizens to register and vote and their literacy tests. In the pending measure. we undertake to overrule the great State of New York on an extraneous matter to this bill. on a subject that is irrelevant to the 15th amendment to the Constitution. Mr.
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