Speaker. I would not feel inclined to occupy the time of the House in discussing this controversy were it not true that to keep silent would do violence to my own sense of justice and fair play. I hold no brief upon this floor for the Attorney General of the United States nor for the Commissioner of Immigration. I have but slight acquaintance with the Attorney General and none whatever with the Commissioner of Immigration and have never talked to either of thenm concerning these California cases. But it is so apparent that the enemies of this administration have sought to magnify and color this otherwise unimportant incident fcr petty political purposes that I can not refrain from calling the attention of this House to the blatant inconsistencies of those who are seeking to use the incident to revive a little life into their own dead political carcasses. I desire also to state. before I proceed further. that I do not stand here as the defender of either young Diggs or of young Caminetti. who are charged with a violation of the whiteslave law.
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