Asked for committee rooms 153 and 154. in the House Office Building. Those rooms have been used ever since the erection of the House Office Building for the use of special committees. and it Is important that they should be retained for that purpose. The problem with us was where to put the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. I want to further explain that the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. being a large committee and having necessarily large hearings. after they found they could not get Nos. 153 and 154. wanted the rooms of the Committee on Militia. which has been abolished. It was impossible to give them those rooms. because of the conflicting necessities of other committees. and the Committee -on the Judiciary. having been increased in size. is now too large to occupy the committee room in its present suite. and the prospective chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary states that the socalled hearing room. to which the gentleman from Illinois has referred as being diagonally across the building from the Committee on Ways and Means. was originally designed for the occupancy of the Committee on the Judiciary. and that it was actually occupied by the Committee on the Judiciary for a brief period. with the name of the committee put over its -doors. but that Judge Jenkins. who was then the chairman of the committee. refused to move into it. and it was finally put upstairs in the other quarters. The chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary says that he will give up the three rooms to which he is now entitled and take only the two. if he can have the one large hearing room.
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