Mr. Chairman. the charges that were made were that the trials which were conducted by and under the control of the commissioner of immigration were fraudulent and unfair. just as the gentleman has today asserted they were. and an investigation of the hearings will show it. Now. Mr. Chairman. my judgment is that this is in the interests of the immigrant himself to a very great extent. You have that immigrant subjected to a public examination. where the public is there all the time. and. in my opinion. he will be more embarrassed. more subjected to what might appear to break him down. and worry him. than if the examination be conducted privately. Then again. Mr. Chairman. it would simply be a matter of impossibility to get through with these investigations. a million a year900.000 of them came to Ellis Island last yearand hundreds aid hundreds of cases are all along being investigated by these boards of inquiry. and for that reason it would be simply interminable and impossible to get through with them if they had to be conducted in public in that kind of a way. because of the interruptions that would be made. because of the remarks that would be interlarded. and things of that kind. And it seems to me It is in the interest of not only of the immigrant. but in the interest of expediting the service that the examinations should be conducted as they have been for years and years. Now. if an injustice is done. that immigrant has the right of appeal to the Secretary of Labor and has the right to be represented by counsel on that appeal. We believe we have guarded him sufficiently all the way through. and I hope this amendment will not prevail.
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