laborers unaccompanied by wives or
- Material increase in the amount of money required to be in the possession of the immigrant at the port of arrival.
- Material increase in the head tax.
- Limitation of the number of immigrants arriving annually at any port.
- The levying of the head tax so as to make a marked discrimination in favor of men with families.
Eugenically, it is probable that (3) and (7), which would tend to admit only families, would be a detriment to American welfare; (1) and (2) have been the suggestions which have met with the most favor. All but one member of the commission favored (1), the literacy test, as the most feasible single method of restricting undesirable immigration, and it was enacted into law by Congress, which passed it over President Wilson's veto, in February, 1917.
Records for 1914 show that "illiteracy among the total number of arrivals of