Senator Lodge continued. "A literacy test will bear very lightly, if at all, upon English-speaking immigrants or Germans,Scandinavians and French.

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Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts urged Congress to pass such a law.

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In a Senate speech,lodge said: "If we care for the welfare, the wages,or the standard of life of American workingmen, we should take immediate steps to limit foreign immigration.

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