The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-26
CHAR. R.;,<oTER oyfMIGRANTs Under Discussion in the
 House. THE BILL IS FINALLY PASSED Special Rule Confines the Debate
 to Three Hours.
  Representatives Having Many Foreign CTS in Their Districts Line Up Pretty soiidIy Against the Head Tax Provision.
 

Head Tax Provision.
 Washington, June 25.-Under rule
 limiting debate on all but two sectlons the so-called immigration bill was ais I cussed for three hours today in the I House and passed without yea ana
 nay vote being permitted on any or the
 paragraphs. This bill attracted much | attention, the representatives having large foreign colonies in their districts llining up generally against tue neaa tax of five dollars which was defeated
 and against the educational test
 After a very interesting contest a
 substitute for the educational test pro
 viding that the whole matter be SUD, 1 mitted to a commission was adopted tby a close vote. The most important
 features of the bill were thus elimi-
 mated and the bill was passed without l division.
 MT. Dalzen (Penn.). from the com nittee on rules, reported a rule taxing up the immigration bill.
 The rule provides for three hours or
 debate under the five minute rule. one hour to be devoted to the consideration
 of section one, and two hours to sec
 tion eight. The previous question nav ing been ordered MT. Dalzell explained
 the object of the rule.
 MT DeArmond of Missouri said this
 was an illustration of the effect of re-
 strictive Legislation. The rule 1t adopt : ed would prohibit vote on any oI
 the amendments, but members would
 be compelled to vote directly on the | subject Mir. Gardner (MaBs.) asked 1T
 a yea and nay vote would be permit
 ted on the educational test" which is made a part of the House substitute He was informed by the speaker that
 if the rule was adopted there w9uln . be no yea and nay vote as the questions ] in issue would be settled in committee 1 of the whole
 A Very Had Rule. Mir Gardner said 1t was very paa trule, which excited considerable laughT ter until Mir. DeArmond showed tns : sweeping character of the rule, he had
 declared he twas satisfied with tha : restrictfoHs. He said that he had now
 a very different appreciation or state ' ments made about the capitol and the < same statement embodied In rule \ He did not believe the House would 5 stu1ffy itseir py refusing an honest ex- < pression on the educational clause I've have had an amusing illustra- ' tion of Legislation by special rule saia Mir. Williams (Miss.) Even the very { sponsor nf the bill (Mr. Gardner or , Mass J., has had his eyes opened by . the questions asked by him. The cf- feet of those questions on the nervous
 system of the gentleman from Massa- chusetts Is about as amusing an illus 3 tration of the general system of legis- lation by rule as anything that has ever
 occurred in the House except the speak
 CTS reply to the gentleman's question
 when he said everything was all right"
 Mir Williams further said that the gentleman from Massachusetts was
 having his Idols shattered so far as he a believed in the integrity of treatment l received in the committee of the whole. [ He was learning that in the committee = of the whole. a man would vote one n way when there was no recotd Kept or . his vote and vote in a wholly differ 8 ent manner on yea and nay vote. . Mr. Watson (Ind), explained that the - rule was in accordance with the par
 liamentary practice of the House for i a hundred years and that never in the . history of the House was a substitute
 bill voted on except as a unit. The rule was adopted by vote of 151 to I, b9. and the House at once went into . committee of the whole with Mir. Wat
 son (Ind), in the chair for the con.
 sideration oe the immigration bill Two Distinct Camps. Two distinct camps developed dur ing the consideration or thls section ~ y of the bill It was insisted on the one hand that a $5 head tax would tend to 1 decrease the number of aliens and tend |, to exclude the less desirable MT. Bennett (N. Y) and MT. Bart holdt (Mo.). however believed that the bill was intended to keep out the
 Southern Italians, the Hungarians, the
 Poles and the S1avoacks It was their
 nninion that 1t would penallze immi l grants such as the Germans. Danes. Swedes, Norwegisns, Films. Irish and \ Scotch and EngliSh who came usuaiiy with large families.
 e The recent atrocities in Russia re- , suItIne in the killing of many Jews 2 and the murders at Kishinen came in 2 for strong ard vigorous speeches on !. the part of MT. L1ttauer (N. Y) and Mr Goldfoele (N Y.), Mir. Littauer of- D RaI1 QmaOdmaUt which was adopted without division: An s immieraht who proves that he Is seek ,nsr admtssion to this country solely to
 avoid prosecution or punishment on
 religious or political grounds, for an
 oerenae of a political character or per
 oao,,tJon involving danger of impFis-
 orment or danger to life or limb on Oc- [, 1n,,nt of the religious belief. shall not l he deported because or want or means {. or inc probability of his being unable to learn livelihood
 I He smoke sympathetically of politi-
 .oi refugees. who. driven from home, O oao,, thIe country because their belief e that here religious persecution Is un-
 known ~ z. nS.
 Goidfogle said he preterred even IS hroader provision which would exempt ;. .no u. rersecuted refugees from the edu- + aat,onai qualification test America, To "a said had always been regarded as e the haven to which, If the Immigrant l. s,ss worthy. he could come to escape r. s.a9, The tyranny, race intolerance and Y nossion to whSch he had ben sub 2 tented in hls native land.
 l should Not Close.
 - Now that the streets of Russia ran
 dv,itb the blood of the victims of
 ,a-secution and the civilization of the o world had been shamed by the whole g .Ia slaughter of inoffens!"e men, wo- z aGn ayS ehildraE, America ought not to close their doors to those who are eeeing to this country fo' protection, ], Mir. Grosvenor opposed the amend 7 ment on the ground that he did not
 want the immigrant inspectors at ln%
 nort of entry constituted a tribunal f to pass upon the question of religious , 1 belief which the Government had care fully avoided in all the past, | The section relating to the educa- n tional test was then taken up and Mr. ! rnnrh.. MILL l offered the fnllnWinG