Various letters to A.G. Johnson [Decimalized .01-.04]

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Four letters to letters to A.G. Johnson regarding the Burnett immigration bill.

GLC#
GLC09518
Type
Header Record
Date
1914-1915
Author/Creator
Various
Title
letters to A.G. Johnson [Decimalized .01-.04]
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
4 items
Primary time period
Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929
Sub-Era
The Politics of Reform
Stevens, Frederick Clement, 1861-1923
Immigration and Migration

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Collection Item
Letter signed

to A.G. Johnson

1914

Stevens, Frederick Clement, 1861-1923

Replies to Johnson's telegram of January 13, 1914 calling for Stevens to oppose the literacy test as part of the Burnett immigration bill. Agrees with Johnson that the bill should not pass and, "...if the provisions of the bill had been carried out...

GLC09518.01
Collection Item
Letter signed

to A.G. Johnson

1914

Manahan, James, 1866-1932

Manahan's reply to Johnson's telegram that he oppose the literacy test of the Burnett immigration bill. Agrees that the test unfairly discriminates against immigrants. "You know as well as I do that if the rabid restrictionists of our country had had...

GLC09518.02
Collection Item
Letter signed

to A.G. Johnson

1914

Smith, George Ross, 1864-1952

In reply to Johnson's telegram, Smith details his opposition to the Burnett Bill especially the measure for illiteracy testing. "I believe in keeping out the crazed, the diseased, the defective… but I do not believe in excluding on the mere ground of...

GLC09518.03
Collection Item
Letter signed

to A.G. Johnson

1915

Wilson, William Bauchop, 1862-1934

A response from Secretary of Labor William Bauchop Wilson to A.G. Johnson's letter to President Woodrow Wilson regarding the latter's opposition to the Butler Immigration Bill. States the President will consider Johnson's comments.

GLC09518.04