GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Mataura Ensign, 30 January 1915, Page 6

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

————— U.S.A. IMMIGRATION BILL, ip: rt.ectric tkokurai’ii coptrioUt. PICE UNITED PRUSH ASSOCIATION. WASHINGTON, Jan. :2S. ■ President Wilson vetoed Ihe Immigration Bill, disapproving of the insertion of the literary test. Tbo literary lest was designed largely to exclude undesirable immigrants.’ '.Senator .Heed proposed the exclusion of all immigrants except Ga.uoasia.ns. Great opposition immediately doveloped, and the amend menL was dually overwhelmingly defeated. .Proposals for the exclusion of Turks and Fast Indians wore also defeated, but a* proposal ty ■exclude Africans was carried by a. ©mall majority-. The Bill prohibited the entrance of all aliens over .1(1 years who were unable in read, and write .English or oilier languages, including Yiddish. President- Wilson, announced bis intention to veto the measure, as. President Taft did. QUEENSLAND ELECTIONS. BRISBANE, Jan. 29. The Premier (Hon. i). F. Denham) stales Unit the general elections will ho field in A lav. STORMS IN NEW SOUTH WALES. SYDNEY, Jan. 29. •The heal iviUT has hrukou and .storms have lowered the temperature. NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS. SYDNEY, Jan. 29. The Legislative Assembly read for the first time the Snporannual :oii Bill, establishing a fund for Slate employees and their landlies and providing a system of voluntary saving m the service.