Speech #460045227

I shall vote for the resolution offered by the Senator from Indiana. and hope it wilt pass. but I want to state in a single sentence the logic of the vote just taken. It is this. that even if this committee shall find that these people are compelled to leave their homes by reason of unjust and cruel treatment or by reason of the denial or abridgment of personal or political rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution. yet the committee shall not inquire as to any remedy for those grievous wrongs. and that the committee shall not inquire itself or report to Congress whether any remedy can be provided. The second point is this: Although the Senators constituents are -opposed to the immigration of this class of people into Indiana. yet he will not even inquire as to the expediency of providing any other place forthem. notwithstanding the fact that his committee may lind that they are actually driven from their present homes by injustice and cruelty. Now. Mr.