Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-02-01 | Page 2 | Lively Debate in House over Burnett Bill

ILIVELY DEBATE "lETTBILL Omission of Asiatic Exclusion Exclu-sion From Measure Arouses Wrath of Representatives 9-. of California. ATTACK IS MADE ON THE LITERACY TEST When Adjournment Is Taken Kj Until Monday a Motion to K Strike Out Offending II H J Provision Is Pending. jjlBH WASHINGTON", Jan. 31. Omission J flffi . ;of Asiatic exclusion from the Burnett ) IH Immigration -bill precipitated lively diB- HB (Mission in the house today, the dobato UB extending into a night session. HI "Loose morals, " declared Itcprcsont- w ativo. Curry of California, "nro univcr- HH sal among Japanese men and nncon- Bf demned among Japanese women; their mHH . daughters are sold without shame into HMC immorality and' there aro 12,000,000 pro- HH fcssional immoral womon in Japan. Tho OK iflca. of marriage between whites and fflK Asiatics is rovolting and menacing in jjHjP problems of a mongrel racial degen- Hb "The Japanese are driving tho Amcr- InB ican fanner out of business in Cali- RHB fornia." I Recent Japanese Law. Japan rccoutly enacted a law, Mr, Curry said, permitting aliens to hold real estate who come from a country that permits the. Japanese a like privi-Bcprcsentative privi-Bcprcsentative Baker of California, whoso bill for exclusion and certification certifica-tion of Japaneso and other Asiatics will bo brought up later, quoted Thomas Thom-as Jefferson as having said he wished there was a sea of fire separating the old country and America. Representative Mann of Illinois asked where most of the members of tho house would be if that wish had been fulfilled. "In, the sea of fire," shoutod a mem-Itcpresentaf mem-Itcpresentaf L;e Moore of Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, opposing the literacy test, asserted as-serted that the bill, would deprive a , quarter of a million people tho right to admission into this country annually. He charged that tho literacy tost was leveled at labor rather than against Declares Bill Unjust. . Representative Goldfoglo of Now York declared tho bill was unjust to foreign-born people and that those now in the country were as patriotic as any class of Americans. When general debate on the bill was concluded, the houee began the detailed consideration of tho measure The amendment proposed by tho immigration immigra-tion committee, which would bar from the country "all persons who advocate the destruction of property," was adopted without debate. HI The opponents of the measure, led PHgf by Representative Sabath, made a fight HH against tho ltieracy teat provision and the proposal to strike out the litorac-NHS litorac-NHS test section was pending when tho IK house ad.iourncd until Monday.