1*6 



CONGRESS. (IMMIGRATION.) 



then educated under the dc*pofic gorrrnm- 

 now. they are to be kept aw> mt (o wait until 

 *n educate their children, ami the < i. .\.-rn- 

 meat i make no prorWon for them. This is a 



.'..-or hith. i them to 



coat gad enjoy the blearing* of librrty with <>ur- 

 ...... , ... .o !:. . rernmenj 



u .kapotie gutemnMOt and DM enslaved y.. u an, I 

 yw chUdn* MM! it it ip 

 doral* them. yo hall be proscribed fnun mining 

 to till! ooontry MM! enjoying the blessings of free 



nly rrally fir* country in the world. 

 pvrultarGurrnimrni among the governments 

 and natioiialitirs of the world. This r..niiii.-nt 



m fcd,, "hen this Government 



a* er*rti. to be the home of a free ptopl* 



people, of ft people who held their 

 lihrrttr* m thnr own ban I m UNd 



thai ' <*t nj'l'ly o tin- imii. 



ii.4i of people coining from foreign countries, and 

 a man or hi* chililrrn who can not stand tin- t.-i .,f 

 rml-senrice examination must be remanded back 

 to duepottom again became they have lived in .. 

 rnmcnl which cared n.t for th< 



.ill! op|*,S4-d t,. t||.. educa- 

 tional left. The capacity to road and write is no 

 of Tin in- fisher in manhood or woman- 



hood, and I have not a doubt but that tin- penitentia- 

 ries < it.- in the t'nion an- full of crimi- 



nal* vv r,-ad and write, and read and write 



welt I have not a doubt that the majority of the 

 wretches whoee necks have been broken on the 

 ga!low could read and write. The acquirement 

 of the capacity to read and write does nt dispel 



dnw from the heart. There are 

 thooamni and hundreds of thousands of good peo- 

 ple in this country and in other countries who can 

 not rrad and write. I doubt \. r\ much if one in 

 ten of the men or women who first came t.. this 

 could read and write : but yet see what a 

 heritage they have created' in this coun- 

 try and bequeathed to us. 



re the reasons which constrain me 

 to vote again* this bill, and to preserve and |>erse- 

 and conti 



Wal 



continue in the p.. hey of our father- t.. 

 Into the teat of pauperism and crime the only test 

 to be applied to foreigners coming to enjoy tin- 

 herttagTof hi- ,*. 



The bill passetf the Senate Dec. 17 by the follow- 

 law vote: 



TEAS Allen. Bacon. Baker. I .wn. 



*. Butler, (nil. CM- .MOM. Chandler. 



rk.DavU.I)ubois.KikinH. Faulkner. I 

 lialli llatithniugh. Harris llawley. Hill. 



Hoar Mi Hride. McMillan. Mantle. 



Martin. Mitchell of Oregon, Morrill. Nd-on. Pasco, 

 tigrew, Platt. Pnn-tor. I'u-h. 

 erman, Smith. Stewart, Teller, Vest, 

 lth 



>ni. Him. -T.rv. Lindsay, 



Mn.-h.-ll of WiecoMto, Morgan^ M.- 

 am^r. \ i t ^ in. 



neh. Allison, Brioe, Cart.-r. 

 Cockrfll.rullo,,,. Daniel. Gear. George, Gibson. 

 don. Gorman. Gray. Irbv. Jones of Arkansas*, .1 

 of NeTada, Pritchard. K/^ h. sho.ij rhurs- 



IJ^TUhr .,, Voorheea, Svarn ,,. \\ 



The House disagreed to the Senate amendments 

 and a conference oommittee was appoint 

 committee made a report which wa* concurr 

 by the Hr.u*. and nooconcurml in by th. 



The points of objection in the <x.i 

 were stated by Mr. <i,b~.t,. . f Maryland, as follow : 



- The rwnlt of that crmfcrrnce is. as I hare stated 

 in my point of order, that the conferees instead of 



ween the Senate lull 



ami the ll.'ii-e bill, reporting that they had agreed 

 and r the ><! ions agreed UJMUI. or ivjuirt- 



in^' that tin- lloii-ie hail a.lh.-red and the Senate 

 had reeelel or that the Senate had adli.i.il ;md 

 the H..UM- had receded, and prcs'iitin.u r the ivMilt 

 of that eonferen<-e in the sha|>< : hill 



which had thai time been passed upon by 



iNith ln>ii-< ' done so; but . on t he eont rary. 



ntly to accomplish 



by IndirecUoD what : pftheUnitecl states 



ami the II i. i.roeiitatives had expressly de- 



termined a^'ain-l. 



" I i Dti "f difT.Tciice I., which 



i from Massachusetts has called myat- 

 M. The eonf-n-nei- n-port j 



different immigration bill from that i.a-. d npoii 

 and |i:iss>d upon by the I In. 



t us see whether I am > 



or whether 1 am im-orrei-t in that statement. 



"In the very first >ecti<-n of the con fen-nee re- 

 port and here is the surest ion I made tin 

 fcrees have added t.. \\hai had already I 

 Upon by both house- Mate and the II 



had au'f 1 upon the ajje limit : th- g 1 the 



- to the character of the 



.:id writing lest; the Senate an<l the Ib-u-e 

 had agreed that all persons o\er sixte, n \e;ir> of 

 age who can not read and write the language of 

 their native country or some other lan^ua^e, ex- 

 cept in the case of "n'd (HTSOIIS not able to n-ad 

 and write at all a grandparent should be admit- 

 ted. The House had au r n-ed that all male persons 

 between >ixte,-n and -ixty Vi-ar- of ;i-e who can not 

 both read and write the Kn.ulish ] ; n 

 other language should be excluded. The Ibmse 

 and the S<>nate practical! Audi- 



tions in this connection ; yet we find the coiii 

 in their wisdom, in the plenitude of the authority 

 which it seems that they have arropitcd to them- 



- or not which remains to be seen- -have add- 

 ed to and have changed what the 11 l.'.pre- 

 M-ntatives and the Senate ha'. ted without 



the House and the Senate, hayii ii|>on that 



(jiiestion. They have provided that : 

 "All persons physically capable and 



v.-ars of a^e who can' not n-ad and write t he 

 Kiitflish lanu'iiau'e or the lan.u'iiatfe of their nat 

 resident country.' 



"Hen- is u provision to which I call the attention 

 of the Senator from Massachusetts in answer to his 

 inquiry made of me a moment since as to wh 

 change has been made by the confer- 



The object of the immigration bill as pas- 

 tin- S.-nate and as passed by the II 



ives was to admit immigrants who could con- 

 form to the educational tot. The conferees |,. |X| . 



uNide of the authority with which the} 

 invested by their re<pectr ;>dded 



what the House and the Senate ne\er b.-f.,re passed 

 upon, and that is the prohibition entirely and 

 lutely of a class of immigrants who would have 

 idmitted under the Senate bill and under the 



bill. The explanation of that i- to be found 

 in the fact that there are thousands of immigrants 

 eligible under the House bill and under the ft 

 bill who are ineligible under the conference ? 



IM "f the fact that they have not a rv-ident 

 country and can not speak the language of their 



natire country. Those ai i he Slavs. 



the Hungarians, Mennonites, and thousands more 



of the different classes of immigrants that I might 



mention who are intended to' lie admitted under 

 the bill passed by both houses who are excluded by 

 the conference report. I hope that point is clear, 

 .Mr. President 

 I come to the other provisions where the con- 



