Speech #560024741

Mr. Chairman. first. I want to enter my protest against the title to this bill and to substitute :for it. "A bill to obstruct the trade of Puerto Rico and prevent setting a precedent for action which sooner or later must confront the Republican majority in dealing with 10.000.000 Asiatics. 9.000.000 of whom dress only in their complexions. and to show due deference to the behests of trusts generally. and to the sugar and tobacco trusts particularly. by taxing a prostrate people without representation." The Republican majority in this House finds itself very much in the position of a swift greyhound owned by a friend of mine. This greyhound ran by sight and not by instinct and smell. and one day in pursuit of its prey it struck its nose against a perpendicular section of a barbedwire fence and was split open from the nose to the end of the tail. My friend having studied anatomy and remembering that when a member of the body was severed. if at once replaced would heal. and by a process called osmosis the endosmose and the exosmose. by a kind of molecular attraction. would cause cohesion. and the severed member would grow.