Speech #630007896

We heard a speech on the floor of the House from the gentle* man from Mississippi [Mr. SissoN] in reference to the pending Japanese question in the State of California. We voted during the last session of Congress for the restriction of undesirable foreign immigration. and came within 6 or 8 votes of a twothirds vote of passing the measure over the unwise veto of f President Taft. The argument was that we should protect the American wage earner from the importation of cheap foreign f labor Into this country. We proposed by the adoption of this new e rate on pig Iron not to protect the American wage earner in iron furnaces. but to transfer employment from our iron ore mines and our big independent iron furnaces in Alabama.