Pending the adoption of that alnendment the gentleman from Illinois tried to amend the Dupr6 amendmnent in such a way as to increase the amount carried in the bill. The Chair held that motion out of order. because if the Mann amendment were adopted. then the DuprC amendment would no longer fit the Holnan rule. Therefore. during the pendency of the Duprd amendment there was no way under the sun by which the Committee of the Whole. if it objected to this laying of the cold hand of death on the immigration bill and the Iumigration Service which is going on. there was no way on earth that they could consider the question pending the disposition of the DuprC amendment. The moment the Dupr amendment was adopted. then. when we tried to put vitality into the Immigration Service in coinpliance with the demands of the bureau. we were met by the point of order that. the Dupr6 amendment having been adopted. there was no way to get our amendment in. because any increase in the appropriation would alter the words just adopted by the Committee of the Whole. If the Chair holds my pending amendment out of order. I shall make another trial to get it in. because I consider it a question of vast importance to prevent the Immigration Service from being cramped. even if we are forced to allow the cold hand of death to be laid by order of the President on the inunigration bill. There must still be some way in which the House can express Itself. I want to call attention to the essential difference between the precedent cited by the gentleman from Tennessee and this present proposition.
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