Mr. Chairman. what I wish to say is this: That I believe the Congress of the United States is willing to pass a bill to protect the American laborer from this unfair competition. But in the past we have never been able to get a Committee on Immigration to report a bill to the House for the House to act upon. In the Fiftyseventh Congress. when that committee had a bill before the House dealing with other questions. I offered an amendment seeking to restrict the tidal wave of European immigration coming into this country. and the House by more than a threefourths vote adopted the amendment. Unfortunately. it found its resting place in a committee of the Senate and was never heard from again. Of course. we all know there is a great pressure by the steamship lines to induce immigration to come into this country and opposition to any law cutting off the number of immigrants. It is worth $25.000.000 a year to them for it to continue. But the American workman has a right to protection against that class of labor.
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