Personally I am willing that there should be a thorough investigation and that the commission should send in the report which has cost the Government up to this day $657.992.67. as is shown in their own figures. but my sense of justice compels ine to protest against the outrageously careless and negligent work which has thus far been performed. When this cowardly report originally was brought in by the gentleman from New York . who is a member of this commission and its vicechairman. for the purpose of having the same printed as a House document. I objected to the same. because I was possessed of an inkling of its contents. and I believed that the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. of which I have the honor to be a member. ought to have been accorded the privilege of examining the report before it would be presented to the House for leave to print as a House document so that it could be sent broadcast throughout the country. I still further objected because the report had already been ordered printed as a Senate document. and I was to a certain extent criticised. but I want to say right now that my sense of decency and propriety would never permit me to allow the printing as a public document of so obscene a report as this. I do not regret having taken the course which I did at the time. thus preventing the issuance of this libelous and obscene report as a public document. and if a like opportunity presented itself where I could. by any action on my part. protect and defend any other people from such malicious and libelous attacks as in this instance.
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