The gentleman may have said things that he did not altogether wish to say. but I think the gentleman from New York should be and is entitled to have the House know what meritorious services he has rendered to the Committee on Immigration in perfecting the bill which I had the honor to report a few days ago. Mr. Speaker. the gentleman from Kentucky Is very much intdrested in the question of the restriction of Immigration. He Is a stern restrictionist. and so am I. but the gentleman from Kentucky has allowed himself to be carried away by the fact that he is zealously interested in restriction Into thinking that those who do not agree with him are perhaps actuated by improper motives. As a matter of fact. a speech which. more than any other that I have ever heard. represents the ideas of the gentleman from New York was a speech delivered by President Eliot. of Harvard University. before the immigration conference in New York. Yet no one would accuse President Eliot of being actuated by a desire to protect the interests of the steamship companies. Mr. Speaker. when you find a man coming out into the open. as the gentleman from New York has done. when you find a man openly opposing on the floor of this House a popular measure. you can make up your mind that that man is actuated by honest motives. If he were actuated by any such motives as were imputed to him by the gentleman from Kentucky he would be the last man to rise on the floor of the House and openly make his protest from time to time. In the Committee on Immigration the gentleman from New York and I took exactly opposite positions. Nevertheless. I think I can call on every one of my Democratic colleagues on that committeeand I wish there were more of them hereto agree with me that never in their lives have they seen a fairerminded. more intelligent. more faithful legislator than the gentleman from New York .
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