I will be glad to show the letters to any Member who does not need "a guardian" and who does not listen to the whisperings of the foreign steamship companies and cheap labor importers and employers. The correspondence was started by the department. The Assistant Secretary wrote me at once. afterI introduced the immigration commission bill. stating that he had correspondence with Pena tor l)ILLINGHAM and the Senate committee. and suggested that my bill went too far in excluding and keeping out the Chinese. He wrote the same kind of a letter to Senator DILLIINHAM about his bill. Mr. Speaker. in this connection I wish to say that I l)refer the opinion of the State Department to that of the gentleman from Alabama. which seems to be the view and attitude held and argued by the agents and representatives of the foreign steamship companies and large cheap labor employers and alien interests. I know the bill was recommitted inthe Senate February 14. 1912. in order to change the phrase excluding all persons not eligible to naturalization in section 3 and soften it down. and on April 15 it was again recommitted to stiffen it i). The arguments of the steamship people about the changed wording being "involved " and " bungling" seems to have convincel .roe. but it did not convince the Senate committee or a mn. jority of tlinthody. . :Mr. Spealkor.
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