Speech #630135683

But whenever you incorporate in this bill this amendment you not only fan the flames of discord. passion. and prejudice in the breasts of those people. but you wipe out and destroy any possible chance for an amicable solution of the question. and you Democrats will thereby only embarrass your own President and administration. But aside from this you do another thing. you present a bill to the Senate that it will not pass. and if it does pass such a bill the President will veto it. I ask you. my colleagues from the South. who have fought so valiantly to restrict undesirable immigrationand I want to say that there is no more ardent Member for the restriction of undesirable immigration in the House than I amI beg you not to vote for this amendment and so hamper the bill that it will never become a law. This is the best bill for the restriction of undesirable immigration that has ever been before this House. Let us stand by the committee. let us stand by the administration. let us pass this bill in its original form. unhampered by amendments that the opponents of the bill are trying so adroitly to load it down with. No good piece of legislation has ever been before this House that its opponents did not apparently try to help. yet designedly to destroy by loading it down with amendments. the weight of which would necessarily kill it.