The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-03
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declared that American farmers had
been ground down until the average
wage for work throughout the country
i was about so cents per day @
Single out Belgians?" he asked,
why not be broad and II admitting
/ Belgians because their country has
been oyerrun by armies and their
! farms ruined. why not exempt FROM
literacy test the Silesians and the
| East Prussians, whose country has
been oyerrun by the Russians and
why not exempt the people OF Nor
| mandy and Of Alsace, whose country
has been oyerrun by Germans just as
was Belgium? Another discrimination
in this bill seems to make It a crime
| to be a christian. The illiterate Rus
sian Jew can come in without taking
the literacy test because he is perse-,
cuted because Of his race, but the II
literate italian Roman Catholic IS
barred out" II,
Senator Root took hand In the
shaping OF the lodge amendment by
pointing out the dangers OF the
| trouble with regard to the contract
labor law. Discussion Of the cost OF
living and whether bringing OF Bel
gians with the distinct understanding
that they go to farms would cut this.
cost, was brought about by McCum.;
ber's protest. Senator Pittman OF Ne
vada, declared there was rich land N
Nevada crying for men to work II ana
produce food for the world, Senator
Walsh of Montana, took issue with Nc
Cumbers statement that the produc-
4 ton OF wheat was increasing too rap
idly for the consumption, saying he
looked forward to the time when
Montana would produce 1000, 000, 0aO
bushels of wheat annually, instead CT
25, 00O, 600 as at present. ,I
AS passed by both house and SEN
ate, the literacy test provides that the
| immigrant must be able to read, but
not necessarily to write, at least one
language There is no requirement
that he must be able to read English.
but he must be able to read some lam
4 guage or dialect. Exception to the
rule are the Belgians.
! Another important senate amend
! ment to which there was not thought
to be much opposition and which 1t
was thought tonight the house would
accept, provides for deportation with
in a certain length of time. OF fmmi-
grants who were thought when exam
| ined to be liable to insanity IL sub
| jected to the stress OF American life.
It was commented tonight that the
only support the president has was
from senator's who fought him on at
least one OF his cherished measures.
Senators Walsh and O'Gorman voted
in favor OF the amendment exempting
Relgians from provisions Of the liter
acy test. In addition, Chinese and
4 Japanese who are excluded under the
present immigration law. the bill as
passed by the senate tonight bars
4 negroes, though tfis provision has
.inot yet. been approved by the house
! Advocates OF the literacy test, who
confidently claimed enough votes to
override veto by the president,
based their claims upon large votes
more than two-thirds of both senate
and house-by which the literacy fea-
ture was approved in both houses.
In the house the vote was 271 to
1876 and in the senate Al to IL.
The immigration bill passed by the
/ senate tonight was almost identical
with the bill passed by congress DUR
ing the administration Of President
Taft which he vetoed. The one domf-
nant feature of the measure Is the lit
eracy test. This provides that an i'm
! migrant must be able to read In some
4 language. 1t was proposed that he
should be able to write also, but
this was stricken out by the house
! Aside from this literacy test from
which Belgian immigrants will be
exempted, the bill Is merely
strengthening of present immigration
restriction with view to keeping out
the insane, the criminal and the dis
eased.
Changes provided for in this bill
tare expected to save the institutions
for the destitute and insane in the
/ states which receive most Of the immi-
"a anus, ouSH dS hdSSdCHu 6StLS, new
i York. Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
Maryland, hundreds Of thousands a
year. One of the most important pro-
visions Of this character is that pro-
! viding for the deportation of persons
who go insane. and become public
charge within reasonable time of
their landing.
! A much more rigid examination OF
the mental condition of all immigrants
is also provided In addition to the
physical examination.
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