IMMIGRANTS TO AMERICA.
PROPOSED LITERACY TEST. By Telcsrap}!—Press (Red. February o, 10,55 p.m.) Washington, February 4. Mr. Buriieit's Bill prescribing* for $ literary tost for the .admission of immigrant!? into the United States has passed the House of Konresetnativos ay 241 v<jfes to 126. Th.o Bill as amended row provides thai; every 'immigrant must be ablft to read either Polish or sonio other Janincluding Jlebrew or Yiddish,. President; Wilson, disapproves of a literacy test, but Said he thought ho would not veto the measuro if the Senate adopts it. A hitter debate preceded the pas* sago of the Bill' in the House of Representatives., members (Sailing well other coward's a'iid liars. The incident was dosed by the offenders indole gishrgv
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1977, 6 February 1914, Page 7
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119IMMIGRANTS TO AMERICA. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1977, 6 February 1914, Page 7
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