Speech #630393703

I want to warn the friends of this bill that this amendment comes from the enemy. and I want to warn the Members of this House who are friendly to this legislation that if this Congress passes this amendment It means the veto of the bill by the President. The President of the United Stated. in my opinion. will never approve this bill with this amendment. The men who propose this amhendment and the men who pushed it through the Senate and who propose to push It through this House are unfriendly to this immigration legislation. and they believe that the President of the United States will not want to approve this bill. contnnimg the Belgian amendment. If le is unfriendly to the bill. it will. give him an excuse. and a good excuse. to vet6 it. And not only that. this House would not pass this bill over the Presidents veto with that amend aut in it. This movement. comes from the Southern Commercial Congress. I do not understand how any friend to this bill regulating immigration from foreign countries can afford to support this amendment. In the first place. are we legislating in this bill in the interest of American citizens or are we legislating for the Belgian citizens? I have sympAthy for the Belgians. but I have no sympathy with the moveiment to make ex ception of them in this immigration bill. Inviting them to come. I certainly have no sympathy with the movement of certain organizations to raise money and advance each of them $2.500 to buy fairms.