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Show SEMIS BEMTHffi ON LIMY TESI Drastic Section of Pending Immigration Bill Is Favored Fa-vored by Hardwick. WASHINGTON, 1e. :;0.-- I'rnlonj'ed debate on the litenu-y test today delayed de-layed action by the reunite on that nee-t nee-t ion of the prnd in im m ignition bill. A vote a f xp4-e ed t on in r row. Senator Hardwick led in the. defetuo of the test . lie ha id lie fa voml it rm a prolectiuii to American labor against, u n In i r com ;et it ion, and hh ii n aid to seen mi; an i nt eili;;ent elcctorat e. lie pea ted reterence wa nutiin (luripf; the day to the IjHwreuce Miike in Masa-cliu?iet Masa-cliu?iet t. Senator II ard wir k con I em led that, iiiimt of the alma Htnkers were illiterate. i "Hut wa-n't thn lender of the strike so highly educated that, he was spoken of for oVlb-o?" jnijuired Senator Lewin. 'Perhaps, but hin doctrines would not ; have tound oindi n fertile field if there, had not been Hindi illiteracy about him," j responded Senator Hardwick. Senator Lewi niiLi-eMed the literaey tet ini'lit involve tliis country in inter-1 national complications and would invite, 1 oss disc ri iniunt iuua in its en! uree-Ilient. uree-Ilient. Senator Williams defended the te?t ' and declared eonrens hould po ft step farther and nmeml the nat uralii-at ion Iuwh so us to reipiire api'li'utnts for , nat urabzat iiyn to pledge themselves in event of war in their native country not . to leave the I'nitcd States. Senator Thornton jpoke in favor nf i the Thntuas amendment, which would exempt from thy tet iiuminrnnt h fleeing from political persecution. I Senator Iio d ij;uoiisly opposed the whole proposition. I |