OCR Text |
Show "LITERACY" TEST IS UNDER DEBATE Varied Views on Provisions of Immigration Bill Expounded Ex-pounded in Senate WASHINGTON1 Dec. 29 Debate on the teray test provision of the Jrnmi gration bill occupied today's Eesslon of the senate An amendment was under oabideratlon proposing to ex empt the test to thoe see&n refuge from political or racial as well as from religious prose cutaon. Througliout the debate, however the general proposal for literacy test was , considered. Senator O'Gorman opened the discussion, attacking the Uteracv test as an improper method of attempting to measure the qualifications of an Imml grant for American citizenship Illiteracy he insisted did not mean ignorance or stupidity Senator Dillingham chairman of the immigration committee during the last R-oubUcaa senate, defended the teet, declaring It was proposed to lessen the flow of the low class of labor without lm pairing beneficial Imraig atlon. Senator Reed asserted that only fear of the political effect of their action had pre vented the authors of the bill from pro posing absolute exclusion of all 1mm gra ; tion. He warned his own party that re j tentlon of the test pro Is on in the bilf would prove a millstone about the party s neck, for the proposal was undemocratic and un American-Senator American-Senator Leis nho announced before t e recess and after a conference wit President "W son that he would propose to s like out the entire iteracy test pro ision had no opportunity today to pre gnt his amendment. Indl atlons today were that a vote on e pend ng amend ment m ght be react ed tomorrow |