Speech #540129822

I am not a little surprised at the suggestion of the Senator from Massachusetts. that the bill has been so thoroughly argued that every Senator is familiar withits provisions and that avote thereon can be reached in a very short while. This conference report has not been debated in the Senate. nor has the bill to which it refers been debated in the Senate. The conferees on the part of the Senate and the House only a short -while since were instructed by the Senate to present a different and a new conference report representing the views of both the Senate and the House representatives upon the immigration question. They have not done so save in one particular. That one particular is the elimination from the conference report of what was pronounced against with a degree of unanimity never before seen during the progress of the consideration of this question. the clause in reference to the separation of families.