Mr. Chairman. I shall be glad if Memnbers will give attention to this question. because I feel that no more important matter has been approached by Congress than this since 1906. when a similar proposition was sidetracked for all investigating immigration comnmission. Gentlemen in discussing the rule have inveighed against it because they said that it cut off debate. and that there was undue haste in insisting upon the passage of the bill. Mr. Chairman. no gentleman can truthfully say that I have manifested any disposition to precipitate. improperly and unjustly. action upon this bill . but. on the other hand. it comes with poor grace for gentlemen to insist that the bill should take its regular course on call of committees. when those same gentlemen have time and time again tried to prevent its taking just that course. Last Wednesday week and last Wednesday being Calendar Wednesdays. I sat in miy place hour after hour waiting for the Committee ol Immigration and Naturalization to be calle.d. Some gentlemen who have today spoken so ardently about its coining on in its regular order were also present then. and upon a little bill involving. I believe. a bridge across the Snake River file gentleman from New York . who has been loudest aiid longest in speaking against this rule. made the point of no quorum and delayed the House for perhaps an hour. so as to prevent the call from reaching my committee.
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