Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-02-06
CONGRESS TURNS
PRESIDENT DOWN
Senate Passes immigration
Bill Over His Veto; House
Acted Previously.
PUT A BAN ON lLLlTERATES
.Alien, 16 or Over, Must BE
Able to Read to Be Adj
mitted to United States.

wASHINGTON. Feb. .. - Congress
has oVciriddCu veto by Prcsidchl
Wilson for the first time and enacted
into law the immigration bill with
its long. fought litcracy test provision.
The senate voted late today, 62 10 49,
t. pass the measure withalandihG
The veto and IN spite of eleventh
information that japan again had
protested AGAINST the language oi the
/Asiatic exclusion section.
Thu house overturned the veto last
week hv n vote OF 2S1 20 lO6. 50 the
senate's action ends the contest OF
twenty ycprs standing In which three
presidents have repudilted similar
bills passed by congress.
Crisis brought On.
The international situation was
brought into the closing debate In the
senate. senator Reed calling attention
to the japanese objection and plead %
ing that nothing be done at this inc
70 disturb or impair the countiN's re-
lations with Il friendly nation. senator
Smith Of South Carolina. chairman u
the immieration committee. answered
With tho declaration that the present
state Of International affairs cmpha-
sized thu necessity for a pure. homo
gcnous American people sucl as tde
bill was intended 10 protect
Senator Reed communicated intor-
nation rom the state department 10
the effect that the japanese embassy
had called attention to language no
the bill providing that no aliens nov
in any way" excluded from entry into
the United States would in future 10
permittCd to enter. lie said the cltti-
cIsm Wds hoscd on their belief that
this language wrote into law the Root
TaEahira gentlemcn's passport agree
iuont against the entry Of Ipancse
.aborers.
Lodges Explanation.
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts
ranking Republican member OF tn
foreign relations committee, explained
the prlgr,ss of the provisions q
which japanese objection has been
voiced in the various stages ui such
legislation.
"It applies To all the world" he
said. 1T does not in my iudgncn'
touch the treaty Of 1911 tthe treaty
with japan which Is modified by the
so-called geutlemen's agreement al
all They desired that we not make al
llsion 10 the gentlewen's agreene
and we've mndc none. We have ca
no reflection on any race or made no
discrimination. The gcutler.eu
agreement will go right ON Il japan
chooses t. uphold it
Who II Excludes
The liieracy test provided for IN the
bill excludes from the United states
all aliens over Is years of age physi-
callv capable of reading who can no
read tho English language or some
other language or dialect including
Ilel.+ew OF Yiddish ANY admissible
nnon, however, or any citizen Of the
United States may bring In or send
fer his father or grandfather over ..
years Of age his wife mother grand
mother or unmarried or widowed
daughter II otherwise admissible. re-
gardlcss of whether such relatives ca
read.
New immigration Bill.
Imediatelv after the scnate's actor
Representative Gardner of Massachu'
sctts introduced In the house new
Immigration measure TO limit the
number Of aliens coming into thu
country to a total OF two hundred
thousand IN excess of the outgoins
aliens.
President Cleveland vetoed the first
immigration measure-with litoracN
test provision President TAFT disap
proved the second bill in 1915 an
President Wilson rejected the third
. only thirty vetoes have been over
>ddcn in the history of the tniteI
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