Speech #570064584

The theory of the committee is that we ought not to take up the question of the Canadian border and we ought not to take up the educational test. nor should we take up the question of selling liquor on the Government reserves in this bill but that we ought to get some good legislation and put it on our statute books and then take up these several meritorious measures by themselves. The fact is that we have not been able so far to get any good immigration legislation because there are three or four different classes of people here in this House who are not satisfied to have some good. firstclass legislation passed. but they want better legislation. and they want to tack onto the bill the educational test if they can. and others will tack on. if they can. the question of the Canadian border. and that is the worst trouble we have to deal with. Then. too. our good prohibition friends want to tack on the liquor question. and so the bill gets loaded up and is defeated. I hope that this bill will receive the support of all of our good friends. those who desire the educational test. those who want no liquor sold anywhere within a thousand miles of any place where the Government owns land. and those who want nobody to come over the Canadian frontier. The committee considered. all of those questions. and has reported this bill with the hope of getting something done in the House.