Personal association by reason of proximity of desks in the House. by living in the same neighborhood. by attending the same church. and by other circumstances more or less accidental. I was brought into close relations with Mr. PERKINS by service with him on the Committee on Foreign Affairs. It so happened that during our joint service on that committee Mr. Chairman Hitt appointed both of us members of the subcommittee to recast the bills on the subject of Chinese exclusion. Prior to that I had had only a passing acquaintance with Mr. PERKINS and had had little opportunity to acquaint myself with his intellectual equipment or his scholastic attainments.
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