Speech #620295213

I believe the conferees who have made the report have agreed substantially that the two former reports need to be corrected. It is an illustration of the effect of the rule which was adopted by the House. The Senate passed an immigration bill consisting of nearly 60 pages. with a great many sections in it. The House committee reported that bill to the House with the recommendation that all the bill after the enacting clause be stricken out and one section be inserted. which was a part of one section of the original Senate bill with some changes in it. If the House had had an opportunity to consider the original Senate bill. sebtion by section. these various changes which have been made in the conference report. one after another. would probably never have had to be made in the conference report. because they would have been called to the attention of the conferees.