Now. if you inaugurate this investigation. when the matters to be inquired into are not such as Congress would have the right to legislate upon. you can not compel a single witness to answer any question on a subject which is not found to be clearly within Congressional jurisdiction. I listened attentively to the statement of the gentleman from Massachusetts . and I have heard nothing showing that we have jurisdiction in this case. He suggests that there may be developed by this investigation something that might lead Congress tonadopt measures for limiting immigration. Through investigating committees heretofore sent out at considerable expense. and which consumed a great deal of time in the examination of witnesses in New York. Boston. and other cites. we already have enough of that kind of information to enable us to legislate if we have only the courage to legislate as we ought to.
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