Speech #610096854

Chairman. let us see If my informant was a liar. For a Member of the House to say that some one is a liar who Is not in the House or that facts stated iby another is a lie out of the whole cloth is not binding upon :anybody. it does not make it the truth by a jugfuL If the words of :one person denouncing another as -a liar make It so. then I have an interview .on my desk that appeared in the Star -of this .city a few days ago which makes the gentleman from New York a liar. The gentlemans speech in defense of the Immigration -Commission against charges of extravagances and delay made -by me disclosed that Mr. J. H. Patten. secretary -of the Immigration Restriction League and chairman of the national legislative committee of the American Purity Federation. was my Informant that was denounced as a liar by the gentleman from New York. and that part of the daily press -of the country that Is controlled by special interests heralded his denunciation .of MT. Patten -over the couutry. -and. in doing so. sought to impress the casual reader with the idea that I. perhaps. -had made false statements in my charges of extravagance and -delay upon th6 part of the commission by heading the reports of his speech with big .headlines such -as "MACxOs facts coldly false." and so forth. Now.