Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-02-06
BILL PASSED OVER
PRESIDENTS VETO
Overriding Wilson's Wis II e S.
Senate Enacts immigration
Measure Into Law.
lITERACI TEST PROVIDED
Vote is o2 to lo. Despite Earnest
Pleas to Avoid Giving or
tense to Japan
LITERACi TEST PROVIDED

dent wilson Cor tho frs, time. and
enacted into iaw tho Immigration bill
with its long tough, litcracy test pro-
vision. The Scna," voted late to-day.
60 70 IL - pass tho n'"asure notwith-
standing tho v.to and III spite of
again had protested arans, the Lam
guage Of the Asiatic exclusion section.
TIL. House overturned the v",o last
week by vote Of 2S7 TO los. SO the
Scnate's action ends the contest Of
twenty years standing in which three
Presidents have repudiatcd similar
bills passed by Congress
JApANESE CoNTRovEUS,
BROUGHT INTO DEBATE
The international situation was
brought into tho closing debate in the
Senate. Senator Reed calling attention
10 the japanese objection. and pleading
that nothing be done this time to
disturb impair the country's rela-
;ions with a friendly nation Senator
Smith. of South Carolina. chairman Of
tho immigration Committee. answered
With the declaration that the present
state of international affairs cmpha-
sized the necessity for pure. homo
cenouS American people. such the
bill was intended to protect. The vote
on rcpassaEe Of the bill was as follows.
To override the veto:
i Den1 ocra s-Ashuls;. Bankhead
Beckham. Bryan Chamberlain. Chiffon,
Culberson, Fletcher. Hardwic5. Hughes
James. johnson. Maine: Kern. Kirby
Lane. Lee. Martin. Myers. Ovcrman
Phelan. Pittman, Poinerene. Robinson.
Shafroth. Sheppard Shields. Simmons.
Smith. of Georgia; Smith. OF South
Carolina; Thomas, Tillman, Underwood.
Vardaman. Wiiliams--3i.
Republicans--Eorah Brady. C,app.
Cummins. Curtis. Dillingham;. Fall. Gal
linGer. Gronna, Harding. Jones, Ken
yon. LsFollette. Lodge. McCumber.
Nelson, Norris, Page Penrose, Pon-
dexter. Smoot. Sterlins. Sutherland.
Townsend. Wadsworth. Watson, Weeks.
Works-2S.
Total-6:.
Against overriding tn. veto:
Democrats-Ilollis. Hustins. johnson.
OF South Dakota; Lewis. MARITIME
Rsnsdeli Reed, Salisbury. Stone.
Thompson. Walsh-ll.
Ecpublicans-Brande Clark. Colt,
Du Pont. Lipptt. sherman. Smith. OF
Michigan: Warren-s.
TOtal-ln.
HAD VOTED AGAINST
ORIGINAL PASSAGE.
senator Phelan. who voted TO over
ride the veto, had voted against orig
inal passage OF the bill. Senator'S who
voted for the original bill, but would
not vote to pass IL over the veto. were
Hollis. johnson. OF South Dakota. and
Thompson. Democrats. and Sherman
and S'nira OF Michigan. Republicans.
Senator Reed communicated informa :
ton from the State Department that
the Japanese embassy had called at
tention to language in the bill pro-
viding that no alien 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 the law the Root-Takahira
sentlemen's passport agreement against
the entry of Japanese laborers.
senator Lodge. ranking Repubiican
member Of the Foreign Relations Com
mittee. explained the progress OF the
provisions TO which Japanese objection
has been voiced in the various stages
of such legislation. I'VE have cast no
reflection on any race or made no dis
.
agreement will go right on il Japa :
nese chooses to uphold it,
CLEAR-CUT EXPRESSION
OF AMERICAN SENTIMENT
The vote OF both House and Senate
declared Chairman Smith, lis a clear
cut expression of the sentiment OF the
! American people on the two funda- :
mental principles involved in this bill
namely the economical and political
! principles economic in that il was ap-
parent to all students that resources
ye; to be developed should now be re-
sarded as a patrimony OF real Amer
! leans. and not to I've exploited for those
f! who have had no part in the great
! struggle to bring us to our present
state of wealth and education: polit-
ical in that the influx OF the adult for
eigncrs without the heredity influence
Of the spirit OF our government
/ jeODardiHeS it's stability
/ The lteracy test provided tor in the
I bill excludes from the United states
I all aliens over sixteen years of age
! physically capable OF reading, VINO
cannot read the English language or
some other language or dialect in
Guiding Hebrew or Yiddsh. Any ad
missible alien, however. or any citizen
/ OF the United States may bring in or
send for his father. or grandfather,
over iifty-fivc years Of age. his wife.
mother. grandmother or unmarricd or
! widowed daughter, il otherwise adniiS-
siblc. regardless OF whether such
relatives can read.
| Immediately after the Senates ac-
tion. Representative Gardner, OF Mas3a :
| chusetts, introduced in the House a
new immigration measure to limit the
numbers of aliens coming into tins
country to total of 100000 in excess
Of the outgoing aliens.
FIRST MEASURE VETOED
ny PRESIDENT CLEVELAND
! President Cleveland vetoed tho first
immigration measure with a litcracy
test provision. President Taft dis
approved the second bill. and in 1915
President Wilson rejected the third.