Marble Hill press., 1914-02-12
IMMIGRATION LAW WITH LITER.
AcY CLAUSE 10 SURE TO De
PASSED ~ CONGRESS.
PRESIDENT WILL SIGN IT
so"thsrnsrs Generally and Organized d
Labor Favor the Measure and ths
house Committee Recon-.
msnds its Enactment.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.

SithNH unfthk uf
is able to read Congress- soon Will
PASS and the president will sign an
immigration restriction bill which Will
smut out illiterate foreigners.
The reason for tho positive state.
meht that congress will pass and the
president VIII sign an immigration re-
striction bill containing the illteracy
test clause !s that It IL known definite.
~ 'hat a great majority OF the mem
pers OF congress are in favor OF the
measure and that Mr. Wilson, iuds
my by what he has said In the past
on tae same subject, also favors the
eng nent c' such legislation.
Pressure Is being brought to bear
TO have the immigration bin taken up
early In February and pressed TO a
nSaase, This restriction bill is al.
J most identical with the one which
passed the house am senate Last year
and which President Taft vetoed.
Arrangements are being made for
Consideration OF tha measure, A rule
In 10 be asked limiting debate TO seven
houra ou each ssde This means that
TIE ~ hours will be given over large
y TO the discussion Of the literacy
clause ot the bin which provides that
no alien over sixteen years OF ase
who 10 unable to read shall be- grant,
ed admission TO this country
Representative Burnett OF Alabama.
chairman oi the committee on immI.
grafton and naturalization, has submit
ted on eohait Of the majority OF h.s
committee report favorable 60 the
passage Of the bill virtually m ii
sianas There are three minority re-
ports. ore signed BY Representative
SABBATH Of Illinois and t,oitfogle os
New York. ore BY Representative
Moore ~ Pennsylvania. and one BY
Representative johnson nt Washing
ton, The objections TO the bill entered
by the minority members are based
on various considerations
Favored by southerrera
There are some eurteas things W..
DERIVING this proposed immigration re~
strictirsx measure. Ther~ In n feeling
In Washington that many 0t the north,
era representatives In congress wish
the bill to pass and yet fevi they ntast
vote against Il, II is said that in its
Initiative IL ss southern proposition
Members OF the house from the south
ern states have no reason TO fear that
they win endanEer their seats by vot
ins against 1t, The constituents os /
virtually all the soatheruera ara ef |
old American stock and seemingly i.
IN taken for granted that Americans 1
al this stock wsll louk with eqaanign, /
lily on the exclusion ot ilIiterate /
aliens,
This htll. or one very much like II, /
II wili be remembered, was passed /
by the senate aud house last year and /
vetoed by Mr. TAR. The senate |
passed II over the veto by more than I
rwotairds vote, but the house MP !
held NJ" Tafts action by narrow |
taarxin
perniSious Lobby Routed !.
President Wilson's wcrd ot wrath .
last summer that peraicious lobby
iUg sas gotas gu III congress not
oaiy had its effect I'm disclosing
the names Of the lobbyists, but
II has brought about All entirely new
coalition Of affairs In this city There
are uo lobbyists In Washington dur
Ing the discussion u the antitrust
bills They have been barred by hints
which have the torcs OF an execgttsc
crder
Washington fully expects that repre-
santAtives cf the great business Inter,
ests o. the couatry Will eome here to
mako themselves heard before the !u'
dietary and Interstate commerce cou-
mittees which we're given charge of
the antitrust bills Same OF the bust
mesa men already are here. but there
are none of the marks ~ the u,dt!me
lobbyists about them or ahsit the law
sers whom they have broaght With
them or sent ahead Of them TO plead
against some OF the provisions ~ the
measures.
Old Washington residents and the
veteran members of congress proha'
bly, will be unable to recognize any
In the descending hosts,
The old timers. II they are 10 be found.
must be searched for with n long dis
lance telescope. The recent lobby in
quiry. although It's results tn some
respects were not what they might
have been. has been sufficient TO shat
ter the iron nerves of some of the
lobbyists OF other days II Is believed
In Washington that the antitrust
hearings will be free from the scandal
Of the old familiar methods of eseTting I
undue influence on individual commit
lee members,
Susiness Men Welcome.
II is pain from what has been said I
n the vicinity of the White House |
hat President Wilson desires that rep.
of the commercial inter
.sts of the country shall come to I
and present to the com
nitteemen their side of any case In I
roived IN the projected legislation,
rhe welves have been scared away, /
,ut the watea dogs viii be welcome. I
when Mr TAFT was president. a man :
xho had once been msmher of eob.
.sess sleod hour after hoar at the door ]