The Sentinel=record., 1917-02-06
VOTE IN THE SENATE WAS
 62 FOR AND l9 AGAINST
This Was the Fourth Time a Measure of This Kind Had Been Vetoed by Presidents, Only Four Vetoes Have Been OVerridden Within the Past 25 Years.


 Washington, Feb 5.--Congress mas oVerridden a veto by President Wils2n for the first time and enacted into law the immigration bill with it's long fought literacy test provision. The senate voted late today, @ to 19, to pass the measure notwithstanding the veto and in spite of eleventh hour in. formation that Japan had protested against the language Of the As.atie exclusion section.
 The house overturned the veto last week by vote of 2S7 to 10G, so the senate's action ends the contest of 20 years standing, in which three presi- dents have repudiated similar bills passed by congress.
 The international situation was brought into the closing debate in the seuate, Senator Reed calling atten- tion 10 the Japanese objection and pleading that nothing be done at this time to disturb or impair the coun- try's relations with friendly nation. Senator Smith of South Carolina, chairman of the immigration commit. tee, answered with the declaration that the present state of international affairs emphasized the necessity for pure, homogeneous American people such as the bill was intended to pro tect
 Senator Reed communicated in formation from the state department to the effect that the Japanese em- bassy had called attention to lam. guage in the bill providing that no aliens now in any way" excluded from entry into the United States would in future be permitted to enter He said the criticism was based on their belief that this language wrote into law the Foot-Takahira gentle. mans passport agreement against the entry of Japanese laborers
 Senator Lodge of Massachusetts ranking republican, member of the foreign relations committee, explain cd the progress of the provisions to N hich Japanese objection has been voiced in the various stages of such legislation.
 "It applies to all the world, he said "It does not, in my judgment, touch the story of t9ll Ohe treaty with Japan which is modified by the so-called gentleman's agreemenD al all They desired hat we not make allusion to the gentleman's agree ment and we've made none, We have cast no reflection on any race or made no discrimination. The gentle mans agreement will go right on, if Japan chooses to uphold it.
 The literacy test provided for in the bill excludes from the United States all aliens over 16 years of age physically capable Jof reading who cannot read the English language or some other language or dialect, ln- cluding Hebrew or Iiddish Any admissible alien, however or any citizen of the United States may bring in or send for his father or grandfather over $ years of age, his wife. mother, grandmother or un- married or widowed daughter, Ii otherwise admissible, regardless oi Whether such relatives can read.
 Immediately after the senate's ac- ton Representative Gardner oi Massachusetts put in the house a new inmiration measure 10 limit the mum Der of aliens coming into this country to total of 100000 in excess of the outgoing aliens.
 President Cleveland vetoed the first immigration measure with a literacY test provision President Taft disap' proved the second bill and and 1915 President Wilson rejected the third
 Only 30 yetoes have been overrld dqh in the history'of the United states and but four of them have been with. iI the past 35 years