Speech #630131966

The gentleman from Illinois said that there is no demand for it. I call his attention to the fact that the Federation of Labor. with 3.000.000 members. every year and for several years has demanded the passage of this bill. I call his attention to the fact that for the last five years the Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union of the South and West have demanded it by resolutions and nauswerable arguments before the House Committee on Immigration. I have just received resolutions from the State Farmers Union of Indiana and Illinois demanding it. and we have demands from all over the North and West and South that this legislation be passed. and that it be passed speedily. I call the gentlemans attention to the fact that more than 500.000 members of the great patriotic organizations of the country. and hundreds of thousands who belong to no organization. are knocking at the doors of Congress. just as they have been knocking for years. and been refused. until last year. and then it was vetoed by a President who only received the electoral votes of two little States in the November election.