Session #61 · 1909–11

Speech #610087518

We all know when we go abroad if we take our families along it Is for the purpose of pleasure. and we know that the members of this commission did not take their families for the purpose of aiding them In their investigation. but for pleasure. and to that extent this trip was a pleasure junket. and there is no way of denying it or getting around it. as I understand it. no matter how anxious Members may be to do so. But be that as it may. Mr. Speaker. Mr. Patten. being connected with this immigration association. was naturally interested in what the gentlemen who comprise the commission were undertaking to do. and he undertook to ferret out some of the things that it was doing. and he stated to me emphatically that the commission while abroad was pursuing a course of pleasure and not of work and had had no meetings whatever to map out the work they had gone abroad to perform until-
Keywords matched
immigration

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
ROBERT MACON
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
AR
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
610087518
Paragraph
#1
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