Speech #620231039

Mr. Speaker. no gentleman in this House has worked harder. in season and out of season. to get a. report and action of the House on the illiteracytest bill than I have. I have tried by all means "to have it reached on the call of committees oii Wednesdays. but the Immigration Committee has not been reached on that call. I have besieged the doors of the Committee on Rules and have been unable to secure a rule for its consideration. I have a letter from the chairman of the Committee on iules. which I desire to insert in the RECOaD. In that letter he says that the Rules Committee could not give us a rule at this session. I asked for a rule on the Dillingham bIll. as substituted by the Burnett bill by the House .Committee on Immigration. The letter states that the committee ould not give consideration to that rule at this session or report it out at this session. on account of many other matters before the committee. That is the substance of the letter. and that at the beginning of the next session. in early December. a rule would be reported by which the bill could be taken up and action be had on it.