Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1917-02-03
HOUSE
IGNORES VETO
OF PRESIDENT
Party Lines Eliminated in
Again Passing Immigra-
ton Bill With Literacy
Test Retained-The Vote
Stands 286 to LOG in Favor
of Measure

OOdAtuO lou " 4VO HI II aNOA
of Measure
! WASHINGTON, Feb. President
Wilson's veto of the immigration bill
because of its literacy test feature
was oyerridden in the house tonight by
a vote of 286 to LOG. Party lines were
ignored in the fight, Republicans and
Democrats being almost equally di-
vided on either side.
Tomorrow the action of the house
will be reported to the senate where
the bill passed originally by GA to z.
An effort to ocerride the veto will be
made there without delay and advo-
Gates the measure say it is certain to
be successful. For 20 years there has
been a fight to establish literacy
test as a restriction upon immigration.
Four times such a provision has run
the gauntlet of congress and been We
toed by President Cleveland, by Presi-
dent Taft and by President Wilson in
1915 and this year.
Tonight the house had % votes more
than the necessary two-thirds MAORI
ty. Republican Leader Mann and
Democratic Leader Kitchin voted to-
gether against the president.
Democrats voting to override veto:
Abercrombie, Adair, Adamson, Al
exander, Aiken, Allen, Almon, Ash
brook, Aswell, Barley, Bell, Black,
Blaclmon, Buchanan, Illinois; Burnett,
Byrnes, Byrns, Galloway, Gambler,
Cantrill, Caraway, Carlin, Carter,
Oklahoma; Church, Cline, Collier, Con-
nelly, Cox, Crisp, Davis, Texas; Deck
er, Dewall, Dickinson, Dies, Dill, Dix
on, Doolittle, Doughton, Eagle, Ed
wards, Evans, Ferris, Fields, Flood,
Candy, Gard, Garner, Texas; Goodwin,
Goodwin, Gray, Alabama; Gregg,
Hamlin, Harrison, Mississippi; Harri-
son, Virginia; Hastings, Hayden, Hef-
lin, Helm, delivering, Hensley, Hill
lard, Holland, Hood, Houston, How
ard, Huddleston, Hughes, Hull, Ten
nessee; Humphreys, Mississippi; ia
coway, Johnson, Kentucky; Jones,
Heating, Kettner, Key, Kincheloe,
Kitchin, Lazaro, Lee, Lesher, Lewis,
Linthicum, Littlepage, Lloyd, McClin-
tic, Mcclellan, McLemore, Morgan,
Louisiana; Morrison, Moss, Murray,
Nicely, Nichols, South Carilonia; Old
field, Oliver, Padgett, Page, North
Carolina; Park, Price, Quin, Ragsdale, |
Rainey, Raker, Rayburn, Rouse, Ru-
hey, Rucker, Georgia; Rucker, Mis-
souri,; Russell, Missouri; Saunders,
Sears, Shackleford, Shallenberger,
Sims, Sisson, Slayden, Small, Smith,
Texas; Sparkman, Steagall, tSedman,
Steele, Pennsylvania; Steele, Iowa;
Stephens, Mississippi; Stephens, Ne
braska; Stephens, Texas; Stout, Sum-
ners, Talbot, Tavenner, Taylor, Ar
kansas; Taylor, Colorado; Thomas,
Thompson, Tillman, VanDyke, Vena-
BILE, Vinson, Walker, Watkins, Watson,
Virginia; Webb, Wilson, Florida; Will
son, Louisiana; Wingo, Wise, Young,
Texas-149.
Republicans voting:
Anderson, Anthony, Austin, Beals,
Benedict, Bowers, Britt, Browne,
Browning, Butler, Capstick, Coleman,
Cooper, Ohio; Cooper, West Virginia;
Cooper, Wisconsin; Costello, Crago,
Curry, Dale, Vermont, DanFOrth, Oar
row, Davis, Minnesota; Dimpsey, Den
ison, Dillon, Dowell, Drukker, Dunn,
Dyer, Ellsworth, Emerson, Esch, Farr,
Fess, Foscht, Foss, Fuller, Gardner,
Massachusetts; Garland, Gillett, Good, /
Gray, New Jersey; Green, Iowa;
Greene, Vermont; Griest, Guernsey,
Hadley, Hamilton, Michigan; Hamil-
ton, New YORK; Haugen, haWley, |
Hayes, Heaton, Halgezen, Hernandez,
Hicks, Hopwood, Hull, Iowa; Hustled
Hutchinson, Johnson, Washington;
Kearns, Keister, Kelley, Kennedy, |
Iowa; Kiess, King, Kinkaid, Kreider,
Lafean, LaFollette, Langley, Lehl-
bach, Lindbergh, Longworth, Near
thur, McCulloch, McFadden, McKen-
sic, Mckinley, Mclaughlin, Mann,
Mapes, Matthews, Meeker, Miller,
Minnesota; Miller, Pennsylvania; Mon
dell, Morgan, Oklahoma; Mott, Mudd,
Nelson, North, Parker, New Jersey; |
Parker, New York; Peters, Porter,
Powers, Pratt, Ramsey, Reaves, Rick |
etts, Roberts, Nevada; Rodenberg,
n