Show musi READ I 1 immigration imm LAW WITH LITER ACY A CY CLAUSE CLAU BE IS SURE turfe TO BE PASSED BY CONGRESS PRESIDENT WILL SIGN I 1 IT T southerners Souther nera generally and organized labor favor them the measure and the house houam committee recommends its enactment by GEORGE CLINTON washington by may alay 1 next it will be impossible dorany for any adult alien to enter the united states for the purpose of becoming a citizen unless be Is able to read congress soon soo n will wl 11 pass and the president will sign an lin immigration migration restriction bh ball which will out illiterate foreigners the reason for the positive statement that congress will pass and the president will sign an immigration restriction bill containing the illiteracy test clause to Is that it Is known definite ly IY that a great majority of tho the members of congress are in favor of the mea measure and that mr wilson judging by what ho he has said in the past on the same subject also favors the enactment of such legislation pressure la Is being brought to ao bear to have the immigration bill taken up early in february and pressed to a passage this restriction bill la Is almost identical with the ono one which passed the house and perlam ser LAm 4 and which president taft vetoed arrangements are being made tor for consideration of the measure A rule Is to be asked limiting deba debate teto to seven hours on each side this means meana that the 14 hours will bo be given over largely to the discussion of the literacy clause of the bill which provides that no alien over sixteen years of age who Is unable to read shall be granted to this country representative burnett of alabama chairman of tho committee on immigration and naturalization has submitted on behalf of the majority of his committee a report favorable to the passage of the bill virtually as it stands there are three minority reports one signed by representatives sabath of illinois and goldfogle Gold of new york one by representative moore of pennsylvania and one by representative johnson of washington the objections to the bill entered by the minority members are based on various considerations I 1 favored by southerners there are some curious things UD underlying der lying this proposed immigration restricting strict ing measure there Is a in washington that many of the northern representatives in congress wish the bill to pass and yet feel they must vote against it it Is iswald said that in its initiative it Is a southern proposition members of the house from the southern states have no reason to fear that they will endanger their seats by voting against Qt the constituents of 0 virtually alt all the southerners are bf old american stock and seemingly it la is taken for granted that americans of this stock wll will look with equanimity on the exclusion of illiterate aliens this bill or one very much like it it will be remembered was passed by the senate and house last year and vetoed by mr air taft the senate passed it over the veto by more ohp a two thirds vote but the house held mr tafts action by a narl nan margin pernicious lobby routed president wilsons Wll Wil sons word of wrath last summer that pernicious lobbying was going on in congress not only had its effect in disclosing tile tho names of the lobbyists hobbyists but it has brought about an entirely now new condition of affairs in this city there are no lobbyists hobbyists in washington during the discussion of the antitrust bills they have been barred by hints which have the force of an executive order washington fully expects that representatives senta tives of the great business interests of the country will come here to make themselves heard before the judiciary and interstate commerce committees which were given charge of the antitrust anti antl trust bills some of the bustness business busin n me men n already are here but there are none of the marks mark of the old time lobbyists hobbyists about them or about the lawyers whom they have brought with them or sent ahead of them to plead against some of the provisions of the measures measure old bid washington residents and the veteran members of congress probably will be unable to recognize any individuals in the descending hosts the old timers it if they are to be found must be searched to for r with a longdin tance telescope the recent lobby in although its results in some respects were not what they might tn ight have been has been sufficient to shatter the iron nerves of some of the lobbyists hobbyists of other da days ys it Is believed in washington that the antitrust hearings hea ringa will be free from tho the scandal of the old familiar methods of exerting undue influence on individual committee members nosiness nu siness men welcome it Is plain from what has been said bald in the vicinity v of the white house that pre president aident wilson desires that representatives of the commercial interests of the country shall come to wellington and present to the com their side of any case in evolved I 1 in n the projected legislation the he wolves have been be en seared scared away but the I 1 watch dogs will be w alcomo when mr tatt taft was as president a roan mat who had once been a member of con tood stood hour after hour at the door I 1 of the room of of the committee on 0 way ways and means which was as ilsc discussing the tariff schedules and buttonholes buttonholed button holed every member ot of congress con grets who went in or out holding him until there here had be beau entime time to plead for th the e retention I 1 on of a high duty on a certain line of 0 iro ported goods no representative of 0 big business busl busi neBa nesa whether ho he bw be a former mem member berof of congress or not will stand this bear apar at committee room doorstop door sto ply his insidious calling way effective theodore roosevelt came pretty near putting pernicious lobbying out of business and ho succeeded in do ing it without ordering a lobby investigation vesti gation when bo be learned that lobbyists hobbyists were nt at wort work be would put forth some boma presidential pronouncement which would bring the country instantly to the tha support of tha mena meas ure which was involved and iti in put ting it forth he ha invariably had something to say ay about malefactors of great wealth who know what whai they wanted and who took nefarious beani mean to got get it the result of the roosevelt method was that congressmen hearing from home did not dare pay heed to the importunities of those who had bad como come to washington for the purpose of thwarting the endeavors of the president atthe of tha united states the lobby fats ests found that their occupation wig still there but that it was vas all work VIt without hout pay day must find now new issue the present intention of the democratic members in congress la is to bring about an adjournment in june within a month or six elx weeks the thereafter reater the congressional campaigns are fought out as a rule on the issues which entered into the last preceding presidential campaign what are the republican and tho progressive gres gre sive selve candidates going to talk about in order to arouse tho the entrust adm agm of the voters and to secure their support this question la ls before the republican and progressive congressional committees for an answer today they must find the answer or better the answers within the next few months two years ago the republicans pledged themselves to antitrust anti trust truit and banking and currency legislation they favored the establishment of a parcel post a liberal policy toward Al alaska aslia plans plane tor for flood protection and many other things the democrats have dealt with all these matters mattera and apparently to their own satisfaction have settled them it to Is perfectly true that the high hope of the progressives Progress ives Is simply that the party can increase its meni membership in the next house of representatives senta tives the leaders of the nevi new party have little or no BO thought thou glit so tar fat as one can determine that they can i becu secure ra a sw sweeping epping victory in the elections eions of next november they do dp believe boyi however ever that they can gath gain additional dit ional members in IS 18 or 20 districts now represented by either Demo democrat cratA or republicans Republic ani must find now new issues issue the republicans as has been antl mated must look for now new issues in tho the next congressional campaign bo be cause the democrats have taken a good many of their issues away from them now of course it if the legisla afon passed by the democrats and which they have intended as a set clement of these issues shall tail fall ol of its purpose the republicans can go to the country on the basis of their opponents pon failure the laws however which tho the democrats propose to enact or which they already have enacted ac 0 o not go into effect in some instances cr a considerable time to come in ue je cases of the laws which have gone into effect it will take a long time to prove whether ty they are efficacious or of not so it would seem that the abino democratic party la is fairly sate safe until some time after the next congressional election the progressives Progress ives seemingly are a little better off than the republicans Republic ana in tho the matter of issues they say sa that th tb democratic legislation shown show an origin in the progressive party and that mr wilson and the congress dominated by hl his party have been steal ing tha progressive material the progressives Progress ives however will not sim elm ply cry thief for they have a dla dis issue in their plank which called for an interstate trade commission with plenty of power to regulate trusts of the country the democrats have prep prepared areda a bill establishing an interstate trade corn com mission but it is given nothing the authority which the progressive think should be given to such a body the democratic effort opp apparently ardently it 1 to restore competitive condi conditions dons 0 01 many years ago the progressive Progress ives s s say ay that failure to do this Is inesita I 1 ble and some of the republican agree with them progressives Progress ives and child labor the progressive sive party has made a good deal of its proposal 1 to do away with child labor by means of a federal act it is urged by the he progressives Progress ives that the continuance of present child labor conditions ultimately will under mine american manhood and woman hood and bring about the decay of the nation republicans never have been keen about stopping child labor and the democrats virtually declined to give it consideration this subject will be among the foremost things to which the progressives Progress ives will give attention in their congressional campaign it la is evident in washington that th the republican leaders still are waiting malting for the to undo the democrats there have bt ban no marked signs so tar far as aa washington cai am that thy the demo democratic bratle tariff law is doing any great amount of damage but the republicans public ans seem to think evil Is going to lo happen soon and 0 on the tariff issue they once nore more can ride into power |