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Show HOUSE SUSTAINS PRESIDENT'S VETO LITERACY TEST FOR ALIENS CAUSES DEFEAT OF THE IMMIGRATION IM-MIGRATION BILL. Party Lines Swept Away in Fight Which Lasted Five Hours, But Five Votes Being Necessary to Turn Tide. Washington. By the narrowest of margins, following a debate in which the floor leader urged all Democrats to override the objection of the' president, presi-dent, the house of representatives late Thursday voted to sustain the veto of the Burnett immigration bill. The final count showed that the proponents pro-ponents of the bill, who numbered 261, lacked five votes of the two-thirds necessary to put the measure through, despite the veto. Those voting against the bill numbered 136, with two, Representatives Rep-resentatives Kahn of California and Steenerson of Minnesota, answering "present" to their names because they were paired. The consideration of the bill occupied occu-pied five hours. Just before the vote was taken, Floor Leader Underwood urged the house to override the veto, while Representative Moore of Penn sylvania, charging that the sentiment throughout the country which has appeared ap-peared in favor of the bill was manufactured manu-factured by organized labor, begged his colleagues to support the president. presi-dent. And in this manner, through the debate and voting, wert, party lines swept into the discard. |