Mr. Speaker. I do not think It Is any argument against this proposition that the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization has had no annual clerk heretofore. It is known to everybody that this committee is growing in importance. Some committees decrease in importance. aind I call the attention of the gentleman from New York to the fact that the great committee over which he presides with so much ability is not as important in this Congress as it has been in other Congresses. Why. it is well known that the amount of work performed by the Ways and Means Committee in this Congress. and for the past seven years. for that matter. has been insignificant. and yet I believe that committee has as many clerks as it ever had. Now. the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization has grown in importance in the last few years. While I only have knowledge of the work of that committee as other Members of the House have. yet I know that the work performed by the Immigration Committee in this Congress and in the last Congress is very great. There were hearings day after day. week after week. month after month. and yet this committee is without the necessary clerical assistance. I want to say further that no committee in this Huse has performed a better work at - this session of Congress than has the Committee on Immigration. The bill to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States. reported by this committee at this session. and a bill which I heartily approve. is the highest proof of the arIiount and importance of the work of that committee. This .clerk is necessary. and I hope the resolution will pass.
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