The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-01-28


TO the limitation Of the ability Of an immi
grant to read and write the English Ian
guage or the Language OF their native coun-
thy or residence
Speeches were made by Messrs UucR
upemO of Iowa DnlliVcr (Rep) OF Iowa,
B8rthodt Rep) OF Missouri Parker OF
New Jersey, Walker OF Massachusetts.
Cannon OF Illinois Grosyenor of OHIO. all
republicans. and Boatner 0pcmD of Lou
Islam in opposition. and Mossrs. pantorth
OF ohio. Hepburn of Iowa. W \. Stone Of
Pennsylvania, Johnson OF Indiana Corlss
of Michigan Morse OF Massachusetts. all
republicans; Wilson tpcml of South Car
oina and TAYLOR tRep) Of Ohio In It's sup
port The provisions Of the bill have re-
Gently been published.
Washington, January 2T-ln accordance
with the notice given on Monday. Mir. Dan
forth (Rep) OF Ohio In the house today,
called up the conference report en- the i'm
migration bill. An agreement was reached
by which the vote should be taken on The
adoption Of the report al o'clock Mir.
Dantorth then took the floor ana made the
opening argument in support of the report
III it passed the house. he said. the hin sp-
piled TO the education only OF males, IL
was this extension OF the educational test,
he said. which caused the principal antas
oniSm to the adoption Of the conference
porl on the ground that IL would separate
families. Husbands might bo admissible
and wives excluded. or Vice versa.
If the bill becomes law, he said Its
provisions would be well understood
,nroau ny prospective immigrants, and
very few families would apply at our shores
for admission who were not eligible. "
any did the steamship companies were
Obliged to return them. He drew graphic
picture of the crowGing In the great cen
ters of population, the great numbers out
of work and the constant necessity of re-
lieving them from want and starvation. He
drew att, ntlon to the Corliss amendment,
which was designed 10 prevent the birds
OF passage" from crossing the Canadian
border each year In the spring and return
Ing again in the fall. They took advantage
Of the high wages paid in the United states.
They paid no taxes and contributed nothing
to the commonwealth
fIe thought the hill WAS less drastic than
the one which passed the house.
In conclusion, he said this bill did not 20
as far as he would like to go because he
believed that the present unemployed in
this country today constituted the creates,
danger to the republic.
Mr. Bartholdt tRepD of Missouri who
had charge OF the opposition to the cunfef-
eHce report. followed in favor of the reje3-
non NI int report anu luHAtut'lbuF W Ai''
conference to insist upon certain modiflca.
tons of the bill AS one of the conferees,
he said he had refused to sign the report
because II would separate husband and
Wife, parent and child, and further b.
cause II NOT only excluded iliteraies, but
all those who could not read and write the
language of their native or resident land.
knowledge and reason, and hot prejudice
aud passion, he trusted, would prevail In
the consideration OF this subject The bill.
as agreed on by the conferecE. he said,
would bar out the Germans of the Baltic
provinces of Russia and many people Of
Southern Europe aud South America VINO
could not read or write the language OF
their native or resident land The German
Quakers. who spoke no Russian, and yet
we're under Russian domination; the French
who lived in the German provinces OF Al
saco- Lorraine and other conquered sub
joots. who had not learned the Language OF
the conqueror, would be barred also.
Mr. Boutele CRep) Interrupted to ex-
press the opinion that Mr.. Bartholdt CAV.
100 narrow definition to the words OF the
bill
in reply to the question Mr. Bartholft
said he thought the dill would exclude
one third OF our present immigration.
Mr. NJ A. Stone fRepl OF Pennsylvania
sent to the clerks desk and had read SOME
kilograms addressed to Senator Lodge,
copies of which appeared In an Interview
with Senator Lodge printed today. He
quoted some statistics to show that last
year but lac Immigrants OF the class OF
which we are proud would have been eN-
cluded by this bill 1t was the imrorta-
ton of those from Italy, Hungary and other
countries of Southern Europe, a large per-
centage Of whom would be excluded by this
bill which was causing the glut in the
common labor market. Two hundred and
twenty thousand of the 400. 900 Immigrants
who came in last year. he said. remained
In the three States OF Massachusetts,. New
York and Pennsylvania. We have been
legisIating for years in the interest OF
higher wages for laborers, now NO should
do something to prevent foreign pauper la
bor from coming here TO enjoy conditions
we created for the benefit OF our people.
Mr. Buck tDem.) Of Louisiana opposed
the conference report. He believed that
whatever tended to restrain or restrict
human efforts contained within 1t the germ
OF Injustice and wrong II was undomo-
cratic.
Mr.. johnson (Rep.l and Mr.. Corliss
(Rep.) supported the report.
Mr. Clnncr tRep) Of Illinois favored
sending the bill back TO conference TO make
more plain the reading and writing quail
ficatioDa.
Mr. Grosvenor tRep) OF Ohio opposed
certain features OF the report and said he
would refuse to vote for bin which would
permit a man to abandon his wife and
bring In his pauper and illiterate relatives.
Mr. Dolliyer (Rep.) Of Iowa said he