It Is our continued feeling that it is not a helpful addition to the substitute. We hope that the Senate does not reconsider the vote. I think we should all be reminded that. under the substitute. literacy tests anywhere and everywhere are suspended. There has been no suggestion that the test or devicethe literacy testin any of the areas that will be brought under the automatic trigger under the Cooper amendment have had a discriminatory purpose or consequence at least in the recent past. I was not conscious. nor did I hear the full exchange between the Senator from Kentucky and the Senator from New York in their discussion of the 1922 New York statute. of the possibility that its purpose in part was discriminatory. No evidence of which I am aware was ever presented to the Attorney General which would persuade him to act. as he can. under the 1965 act. to go in and have the test lifted and preclearance established. It would appear to us that the drastic mechanism of the 1965 act Is simply not appropriate or needed in the areas that would be reached by the Cooper amendment. In conclusion. and to repeat. the adoption of the subtitute will lift the literacy tests everywhere.
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