Speech #540121913

The result of that conference is. as I have stated in my point of order. that the conferees. instead of determining the differences between the Senate bill and the House bill. reporting that they had agreed and reporting the sections agreed upon. or reporting that the House had adhered and the Senate had receded or that the Senate had adhered and the House had receded. and resenting the result of that conference in the shape of a perfected ill which had before that time been passed upon by both Houses. have not done so. but. on the contrary. they soughtI speak it reverentlyto accomplish by indirection what the Senate of the United States and the House of Representatives had expressly determined against. I now come to the points of difference to which the Senator from Massachusetts has called my attention. The conference report presents a very different immigration bill from that passed upon by the Senate and passed upon by the House of Representatives. Let us see whether I am correct or whether I am incorrect in that statement. In the very first section of the conference reportand here is the suggestion I madethe conferees have added to what had already been agreed upon by both Houses.