The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-26
MANY MINDS ON THE
 IMMIGRATION BILL Underwood Makes Strong
 Speech on Subject WANTS MORE RESTRICTION Discussion of the Educational ouaIi- fication Causes Debate-Sufferers
 From Religious Persecution
 Allowed to Enter.
WANTS MORE RESTRICTION

Washington, June 5.-Mr. Dalzell of Pennsylvania, from the committee on rules. today reported rule taking up the three hours of debate under the five min- ute rule, one hour to be devoted to the consideration of section l, and two hours to section 8. The previous questions hay ing been ordered, MT. Dalzell explained the objection of the rule. Mir DeArmond of Missouri said this was an illustration of the effect of restrictive legislation. The rule. if adopted, would prohibit vote on any of the amendments, but members would be compelled to vote directly on the subject.
 MT. Gardner of Massachusetts asked if a yea and nay vote would be permitted on the educational test" which is made a part of the House substitute. He was in- formed by the speaker that if the rule was adopted, there could be no yea and nay vote, as the questions in issue would be settled in committee of the whole.
 MT. Gardner said it was very bad rule, which excited considerable laughter, for until MT. DeArmond showed the sweeping character of the rule, he had declared he was satisfied with the restric- tions. He said that he had now a very different appreciation of statements made about the capitol, and the same state ment embodied in a rule. He did not be- lieve the House would stutify itself by refusing an honest explanation of the edu- cational clause.
 Williams Is Amused
 "Ne have had an amusing illustration of legislation by special rule.' said Mr. Williams of Mississippi Even the very sponsor MT. Gardner of Massachusetts. has had his eye opened by the questions asked by him. The effect of these ques- tions on the nervous system of the gen. teman from Massachusetts Is about as amusing an illustration of the general system of legislation by rule as anything that has ever occurred in the House ex- cept the speakers reply to the gentle mans question when he said everything was all right"
 MT. Williams further said that the gen. tleman from Massachusetts was having his idols shaken so far as he believed in the integrity of the treatment received in the committee of the whole He was learning that in the committee of the whole a man would vote one way when there was no record kept of his vote and vote in a wholly different manner on q yea and nay vote.
 Mir Watson of Indiana explained that the rule was in accordance with the par liamentary practice of the House for hundred years, and that never in the his- tory of the House was a substitute to bill voted on except as unit. The rule was adopted by a vote of 151 to 95 and the House at once went into committee of the whole with MT. Watson of Indiana in the chair, for the consideration of the immigration bill.
 By votehof 94 to 79 the House in com- mittee of the whole d~'- e,vor of s2 a head tax, which is the present law, again. $5 mead tax reported by the com mittee.
 Two Distinct Camps Develop.
 Two distinct camps developed during the consideration of this section of the bill. It was insisted on the one hand that a s head tax would tend to decrease the number of aliens and tend to exclude the less desirable.
 MT. Bennett of New York and Mir Bart holdt of Missouri. however, believed that the bill was intended to keep out the
  (ContInued on Eighth PaQe)