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XIX—REMEDIES 
1. Few New Laws Needed 403 
2. Industrial Conditions Demand Restriction .... 404 
3. Recommendations of the Immigration Commission . 405 
Majority Report 405 
Views of the Minority . . . . : . 410 
4. Discussion of Proposed Legislation: 
Religious and Political Refugees . . . , .411 
The Delinquents 412 
Boards of Special Inquiry 412 
Another Assistant-Secretary of Commerce and 
Labor 413 
Exploitation and Assimilation 414 
Oriental Immigration 415 
Contract Labor Law 416 
General Restrictions 417 
Assimilation and Distribution 418 
Literacy Test 419 
Discriminating Head Tax 420 
Restriction to Fixt Number 420 
XX—THE IMMIGRATION LAW OF 1917 
1. History of Literacy Test 423 
2. The Reading Test 425 
3. Effect on Immigration 427 
4. Exclusion of Asiatics 432 
5. Immigration from India 435 
6. Other Debarred Classes 435 
7. Contract Labor and Induced Immigration .... 437 
8. Overcoming a Supreme Court Decision .... 438 
9. Deportation of Criminals 440 
10. Increased Head Tax 442 
11. Inspectors and Matrons on Ships 443 
12. Administrative Fines 444 
13. Other Changes 446 
XXI—PRESENT AND FUTURE RESTRICTION 
1. Number of Aliens Admissible under Act of May 19, 
1921 449 
2. Preference in the Law 450 
3. Classes Exempted from Law i 450