Mr. Chairman. the position of chairman of the Committee on Immigration is an unenviable one. and it adds a new terror if he must be made a personal target on the floor of the House. The gentleman from Alabama a little while ago exhibited some reasonable resentment .when a Member on this floor taunted him by speaking of the gentleman from Massachusetts as the Republican chairman of the committee. For eight or nine years the gentleman from Alabama and I have sat side by side on these bills. and we have seen every device worked in and out of this House to prevent the question of immigration restriction from coming to a vote. During that time. in spite of all its opponents could do. the question has come to a vote twice in the Senate and twice in the H1ouse. When I had charge of the bill the gentleman from Alabama was practically Democratic chairman of the committee.
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