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Show LITERACY TEST WILL REMAIN IN THE BILL WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. Chairman Smith of tho senate immigration committee com-mittee emphatically declared today he never had told the committee President Presi-dent Wilson would sign the pending immigration bill if it contained tho literacy lit-eracy test. Members have been much confused ovor conflicting reports on the attitude of the president. The committee commit-tee is going ahead, intondmg to retain in the bill the house provision for a literacy test. Chairman Smith loft today for New York to make an inspection of Ellis island with a view to aiding tho com-mittco com-mittco in concluding its work on tho bill. |