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Show READ OR KEEP OUT THAT 18 WHAT UNCLE SAM II LIKELY SOON TO SAY TO IMMIGRANTS. "xaaaaBBaaaaaaajeaaaMaaat BILL NOW IS IN CONFERENCE President Taft Probably Will Sign Maaaure That Is Dsslgntd to En-elude En-elude People From Some Parte of Southern Europe. By GEORGE CLINTON. Washington.- Recently the senate of the United States paaaed an Immigration Immi-gration reatrlctlon bill and sent tt over to the house for approval. The repreaenlatlvea changed the form of the bill, pasaed it and aent It to conference. con-ference. It la believed that an agreement agree-ment upon the provlalona of the nieas-ure nieas-ure will be reached by the two bouaes and that aoon congreaa will pasa It and send It to the president for bis signature or hla veto. It la undnratood that Mr. Taft does not entirely agree with tha provlalona provl-alona of the meaaure In the form In which It aeems certain it Anally will be approved by congress. The law will contain a provision ahuttlng out from America all Immigrant above the age of alxteen years who are un-tble un-tble to read, unleea It can be proved that the ailena are fleeing from roll-Kloua roll-Kloua peraecution. While the president la said not to be entirely sympathetic with the bill It la believed that in the near future Immlgranta wtll be aubje-cted to the reading tet before they can admitted to (hla country. The teat will he In the language which the Immlgranta apeak. When the meaaure passed the senate there waa a Ave to one vote In favor of a provlalon which would have subjected Immlgranta to both reading and writing teata. The house knocked knock-ed out the writing provision and sent the bill to conference. Tsft Will Sign It. It Is the opinion of congressmen who have made Inquiry Into the matter that the change of the form of the Illiteracy Il-literacy teat will not make much difference. dif-ference. It la held that about 99 out of every 100 peraona who know how to read alao know how to write. It aeema Anally to be assured that a restrictive re-strictive Immigration measure will And a place on the statute books In the Immediate future, tor while Preal-dent Preal-dent Taft Is known to have some doubts In the matter, the general belief be-lief la that be will algn the bill. There Is no use to try to gloss over the real reason why congress waa willing will-ing to put the reading teat Into the new, immigration law. The dealre Is to keep out immigrants whom experience, ex-perience, tt Is said, has proved to be undesirable as a class, and this means the exclusion of certain of the south Italians, certain of the Jews, certain ' of the Poles, and men and women of other races among whom the per- ! Eentage of Illiteracy la high. The steamship companies always j save been agalnat "antl immigration aws." The reason for their opposl-Ion opposl-Ion needs no explanation. Under the 1 ropoed iw rejected aliens will be ' lent back to their native lands at the 1 ixpense of the steamship companies ' valch bring them over. The suppost-lon suppost-lon Is that the eompanlee will on ' heir own behalf see to It that no one ' a allowed on board who cannot go 1 hrough unatumbllngly a paragraph of 1 tie school reader. ( For years attempts have been made 1 n congress to get through an Imml- 1 iratlon bill with an Illiteracy test ' itsose as one of its provisions. In 197, when drover Cleveland waa 1 iresldent. a bill very much like the 1 iresent one. or like the form In which c t bas been sanctioned by the house, 1 ras paaaed by congress. Mr. Cleveland ' etoed It and tt baa been said that aft 1 rward be regretted his act There 1 Iways baa been strong opposition to ' be paaaage of a meaaure which would T xrlude Immlgranta because of Ina- illlty to read and write. ' Question ffitally of Geography. If congreaa could have done It, It ' rould have exempted from the llllt-racy llllt-racy teat Immigrants from the north-m north-m European countries, but of course s t could not do this. The Issue, so P ar aa "geographical restriction" la li oncerned, always bas been avoided, b at when a thing Is perfectly plain, b enlala and evaalon are of no service. L 'ertsln kinds of Immigrants are not e rsnted, and It is supposed that the 11- iteracy clause will keep them out w The opposition to the illiteracy g "t haa come during the years not fi nly from naturalized Americans wbo si of not like to see their homeland tl tdred debarred from admlaaton, but rom mea and women of prominence b j the work of the world and who are T scended from - "immigrants" who n am to this country In the seven- b ;anth and eighteenth centuries. m .The provision of the bill which al- ol ws Illiterate Immigrants to enter U lie country If they are trying to get U way from religious persecution .opens p the question of proof. In certain w pantries the Jews are persecuted off c Dd oa. Wtll aa immigrant be allowed tt ! enter because he Is In fear of per t cotton, a fear baaed on "past per- H irmancef" In other worda. must the to ersecutlon be epea and active and ' ti iet a man be actually fleeing from It w i order to be admitted to this country ct Hbout being asked to read hla way re Ho ttt 0j Wlleen Silent on Cabinet cr Never wtibla the memory of the Ca embers of congrees oldest In sere- ei hss a president-elect ben ao "aelf n oaatralned- as ts Wood row Wilson id n the subject of prospective cabinet as appointments and other appointments to high government offices. Today there Is not a Democrats leader in congress apparently who can say that he knows one man wbo is certain to be appointed to high office by the Incoming In-coming Democratic president f Ever since Mr. Wilson came back from Bermuda the Democratic leaders have been conferring with him. The trains between Washington and Trenton have been heavy laden with paiaengera of national prominence going go-ing to (he source of knowledge, to come back again with very Uttle knowledge about the things of greatest great-est personal interest Mr. Wilson, the returning Democratic leaders admit is not of a mind to commit himself In any way definitely upon the subject of the composition of his cabinet until he Is certain that he bas weighed all the recommendations and all the objections ob-jections and has found out to the nicety of a fraction all that be wants to know about the men whom be would like to Invite to membership in bis official family. It must not be understood from this that Mr. Wilson has declined to talk freely with the Democratic leaders. lead-ers. He has had and Is having con-1 ferenoes laetlug for several hours with, the men of greater prominence in his party. It ia known definitely , Ma, Washington, however, that r.a i tentba of the time conaumed at (be conference Is given over to the discussion dis-cussion of policies rather than men. Mr. Wilson Is anxious to learn from' the men of his party of long experience experi-ence In congress just what chance leg Ulatlon which be may propoae baa of being enacted Into law.' Expscta Antagonism In Senate, The president elect haa a keen appreciation ap-preciation of the fact that the Democratic Dem-ocratic membership in the senate Is an uncertain quantity In certain mat tera of party policy. He knows that there are ultra-conservative Democrats Demo-crats In the senate whom their more progressive, or radical. If you will brethren go so far as to call Republicans Repub-licans with a little veneer of Democracy. Democ-racy. It Is known from what the leaders lead-ers say that Mr. Wilson fears that some of his policies upon which he will make strongly progressive recommendations recom-mendations are not vo the liking, In their outlined form, of some of the Democrats In the senate. So It Is that Mr. Wilson Is anxious to learn in advance from the members of bis party just how much antagonism be may expect In the senate, and what If anything he muat concede In order t Jnaure united Democratic support of such legislation as he may propose. pro-pose. There Is some fear, it Is known, on Mr. Wilson's part, that the Democrats in the senate will decline to aanction tariff revision In the form of some of the provisions which will be put Into ! the bill by the house of representatives representa-tives which, under the cosUtaui J must initiate all tariff legislation. 1 Must Travel Old Rosd. Representative Oscar W. Under , wood, chairman, and hia fellow mem- , bers of the ways and means com- , mlttee, are about to begin the hear , Ings which always come as a pre- , lude to the passage of new Urtfflegis- J latlon. The road which stretches be- , fore the chairman and hla fellows is , i much traveled one. The Republlo- ( in-controlled waya and means com- i mlttee went over It at the extra see-ilon see-ilon called bx Mr. Taft la 1109. A ! Uemocratlo-cootrolled waya and , means committee went over It la ?art when reciprocity was under eon- f itderatlon; then the aame committee , iront over tt again at the last session , f congress, and now the waya and . neans members stand at the tape eady for the signal to begin the narcb once more. Cynical laymen In Washington say hat If the committee hears anything t lew on the tariff question during ths r wming weeks of patient or lmpa e lent attention to the arguments of a m porters and manufacturers, It will , e one of the miracles of chance. rhe printed publlo reports of the tar i tt hearings during ths last four 6 ears make many vol a mea. Every . ubject from acetanelid to tiae has , een exploited for all that waa la II t o bolater up the cauao of etthef p tandpattam or downward revision. g Cuts May Net Be Very Desp. g It seems to be the belief of most e Indents of legislation, and of the h olltlcal trend, aa It will affect legle- s itlon, that the tariff bills, which win e e passed by a congress controlled ti y the Democrata and signed by a tl lemocratle preeldent will not repre- li ant "a cut to the bone policy." It u soma likely that the measures hlch finally will come out of coo- e ress will be considerably above a s e basis. Democratic leaden have li aid that they do not want to do any- f ling which wtll upset business, or u b 9m of them put It which will gtv o oatnesa a chance "to upaet Itself. a be waya and meana committee will b port downward revlaloa tariff bUla, a ut juat how deep the cuts wtll ge ol luet depend entirely upon the results U the conference between leaders of ei is different schools of Democratic si ought on tariff matters. si A new ways and means committed 111 be appointed aa soon as the nsw ngreaa nets together, but nearly all ft le Democrats la the present oommlW e are certain of reappointment ecause of the Increased Democrat! si mbenhlp In the next house one or ro additional members of the party V 111 be put oa the waya and meaaa mmlttee, but tbere Is not even the moteat poaalblllty that any change ' the committee from one Demo-atlc Demo-atlc school of thought to another w ia occur. The Influence of the pre. Is it committee therefore will extend tl to the next congress, and la a large I easure, Ita personnel win be the!'1 me. j km |
