I ask permission to say a further word in regard to the matter. It is needless for me to repeat what I have already said as to my objection to the resolution. particularly and basically on account of the last clause. which the amendment offered. by the Senator from Texas proposes to strike out. nor to repeat the reasons which I gave as to the first part of the resolution on the ground that it is not properly framed. and so forth. As the suggestion has been made that this information is needed for the pqrpose of legislation. either as to the enactment of a tariff law or as to the regulation of the subject of immigration. I want to say that if the resolution is put in proper shape and the proper authority is clothed with the investigation I shall vote for it. For that reason I shall suggest as the proper means of securing this information that there should be a committee of the Senateand I will now say that if the resolution comes again before the Senate I intend to offer an amendment to the effect that the investigation shall be made by a committee or subcommittee of either the Finance Committee or the Committee on Immigration. and put in that shape and with that sustained by the Senate we shall then have an authoritative investigation. There is much in what the Senator from Massachusetts has just said as to the impropriety of sending a subordinate officer of an executive department of the Government to investigate the internal affairs of a State. Therefore.
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