President. I had referred to the action of the Senate and of various Senators relative to the conference report on the rate bill last June and the reprimand given the conferees ill that instance for doing just what the conferees have done here. There is this difference. that when the Senate passed the immigration bill. changing the law in many particulars. it presented nil entirely new bill. and the House struck out everything except the enacting words and enacted an entirely new bill. Based on this. it is contended that the conferees are at liberty to enact anything they see fit in regard to immigration. that there is no linlitation whatever on their power. and that technically they have. been within their rights. What I contend for is that in neither of the entirely new bills wivch were passedone by the Senate and one by the Houseis there anything relating to the subject of the proviso which I have just read. That is absolutely new matter.
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