Not now. I Want to say to gentlemen that I have not been by design discourteous to any Member. but gentlemen must understand that in a discussion which comes up as unexpectedly and takes on the range that this has taken. necessarily with numerous interruptions. we may not have been fully regardful of some of our colleagues. But we have been glad to present our humble views to the House of Representatives. touching not the merits of this billfor we have not undertaken. except incidentally. to discuss ittouching not the provisions of the Dillingham bill or of the Burnett bill. because we have not undertaken to do that. though I shall perhaps do so at a future time. I have only purposed to present to the House and the country in a general way the status of the immigration legislative situation in a House of Representatives where the Democrats have 63 majority. and where they have had 16 months of control. with an Immigration Commissions report of 42 volumes that cost about a million dollars. before it. and whose nine distinguished membersthe entire commission of .nine. composed of three Senators. three Congressmen. two Federal officials. and an educator of international reputationcame to a unanimous finding that the welfare of this country. the integrity of our institutions. the safety of our Government. the purity of our civilization. and the sanctity of our homes. urgently needed to be protected and fostered by the passage of restrictive immigration legislation. To a man. all nine. even though at least six of them were of a different opinion at the beginning of the five .years searching investigation at home and abroad. concurred in their report to Congress that "substantial restriction is demanded by economic. social. and moral considerations." and eight of the ninethe ninth being a Republican. and failing to be returned to this Houseurge the illiteracy test as the "most feasible" method of excluding undesirables.
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