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I am advised. was practically taken from United States court records. police court and police commissioners reports of the large cities of the country. and that much the report. Another falsehood out of whole cloth. absolutely. Men. and women too. risked their lives to get some of the facts that are in the whiteslavetraffic report of the Immigration Commission to this House. We started our public work. so far as the courts were concerned. in the city of Chicago and almost simultaneously in the city of New York. There were 27 indictments and 17 convictions and pleas of guilty. and the fines and forfeited bail bonds paid to the United States as the result of the work of the Immigration Commission in Chicago alone amounted to $125.000. and. as I am reminded. our information is now being used by the grand jury in the county of New York. in addition to some 20 convictions in the United States district court in that district. and the gentleman could have found that out if he had exercised ordinary. reasonable diligence. which he should have exercised before he attacks fellowMembers of this House on the floor of the House. because It is all printed in a whiteslavetraffic report. which is a Senate document of this Congress. together with a letter of commendation from District Attorney Sims of the northern district of Illinois. I submit that a gentleman who attacks a colleague at the instigation of an informer had better. before he does it. consult the records of the body of which he Is a Member. I think that is about all. except the criticism of the amount of money we have spent I want to take a few minutes of the time of the House in relation to that.