Speech #620295243

During the fiscal year ending June 30. 1911. there were 4.282 who came in and 5.869 who went out. making 1.487 more who went out than came in. That passport law is being enforced. The Japanese are being kept out. and the purpose of this bill was to keep out new immigration that is coming in on the Pacific coast. Mr. Speaker. in regard to the protest that gentlemen have made against adopting conference reports of this kind. the same argument might be made against any conference report. I have never heard the gontleinan from Pennsylvania . who is always on his feet when river and harbor appropriations are coming in. make any protest that river and harbor bills contain hundreds of items frequently that are put in by conference committees. Other gentlemen who have protested today have sat here dumb as oysters when conference reports involving millions of dollars have been involved. And yet when we get this immigration bill here they make a great outcry about the little consideration given to conference reports. and it seems to me they make this protest for the purpose of squaring themselves with somebody. Mr. Speaker. my good friend. the gentleman from New York . standing like Father Abraham. at least in splendid physical appearance if in nothing else. a grand patriarch of- his people and of his party. has shed crocodile tears here over the boy 16 years old who might be excluded.