Not now. I am advised there are sixteen ablebodied Congressmen from the city of Greater New York. and if they were to become a little industrious during the vacation. between the adjournment of this session and the convening of the next. they could find out more about the evils complained of than any committee we could send there to discover thenm. and I believe. sir. that the burden ought to be placed upon them to ferret out the evils as they exist and report to the Committee on Immigration the honest truth about them. Sirs. I do not believe that th members of the Committee on Immigration are so profoundly blessed with ability that they can investigate these matters in a superior manner to that that could be employed by the Members of the House who reside in the city of New York. I think the intelligence of those Members of the city of New York is on a par with the intelligence of the members of the Committee on Immigration. and I am advised that one of the Immigration Committee himself resides in the city of New York. and he ought to be able to find out these evils just as well off of a committee as he could on a committee. Sirs. let- us keep this $2.500 in the Treasury and allow the Congressmen who reside there to make an investigation and report the evils they discover during vacation to the Committee on Immigration next winter. and let that committee prepare a bill and present it to this House to cure them.
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