Speech #470093451

The gentleman says he never pretended that was the committees bill. 1 have said toyon what Ihave to say on that subject. When he brought the report to me and the bill with it. which was the only bill he brought. lie gave me to understandof course I will not nitdertake to say precisely what were his words. for I had no reason to charge my memory with thembut he gave me to understand it was the committees bill. Ou my examining it and finding the language to which I have referred. he gave me to understand it was the committees bill with the exception of acn amendment which he said had been agreed to by the balance of the committee in relation to immigrants coming from the Canadian border. That I assented to. because he said the other members of the committee had done so. The gentleman says in his interview that other members of the committee.