Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1917 — GOES (HER PRESIDENTS VETO [ARTICLE]

GOES (HER PRESIDENTS VETO

Famous Jnimigrat ion Bill Became a Faw Monday. Congress has overriden a veto by President Wilson for the first time, and enacted info law the immigration bill with its long fought literacy test provision. The senate voted late Monday, f. 2 to 19 to pass the measure, notwithstanding the veto and in spite of eleventhAiour information that Japan again had protested against the langauge of the. Asiatic exclusion. The house overturned the- veto last week by .a vote of 287 to 106. so ths senate's action ends the contest of twenty years standing in . which three Presidents have repudiated similar bills passed by congress.