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Show PRESIDENT VETOES IMMIGRATION BILL OPPOSED MEASURE BECAUSE OF LITERACY TEST FOR THE ADMISSION AD-MISSION OF ALIENS. This is the Third Time That an Immigration Immi-gration Bil Containing a Restrictive Restric-tive Literacy Test Has Been Vetoed by Chief Executive. Washington. President Wilson ve. toed the immigration bill on Thursday Thurs-day .because of the literacy test for admission of aliens. His message was received in the house and referred to the immigration committee, whose chairman, Representative Burnett, will move next Thursday that the measure be passed over the executive veto. Much informal discussion among members of the house followed the reception re-ception of the veto, and advocates o the bill expressed confidence, while other members asserted that the required re-quired two-thirds majority to force the measure into law over the head of the chief executive could not be procured. . Three times has an immigration bill containing a restrictive literacy test been vetoed, first by President Cleveland, Cleve-land, next by President Taft and now by President Wilson. Twice congress failed to override the presidential disapproval, dis-approval, and on Thursday house managers were insistent that the veto should not be considered until there has been time for reflection. The president, in his message, frankly told the house, which originated origi-nated the bill, that he had no pride of opinion on the question and was not "foolish enough to profess to know the wishes and ideals of. America Am-erica better than the body of her chosen representatives know them. "If the people of this country have made up their minds to limit the number num-ber of immigrants by arbitrary tests and so reverse the policy of all the generations of Americans that have gone before them, it is their right to do so," he said. "I am their servant and have no license to stand in their way. But I do not believe they have." |