If the appointment of a commission is germane either to the Senate amendmlent or to the House amendment to the Senate amendment. then it was In order for the conferees to bring In their proposition as to a commission. In matters of this sort we have to be guided largely by precedent. The other day I cited to the Speaker the ruling made in 1906 on the immigration bill. when there was pending before the House a section providing for a literacy test of immigrants. and the House. on motion niade. inserted a provision appointing a commission in lieu of providing the literacy test. When that amendment was offered the point of order was made that it was not a germane amendment. a point identically on all fours with this proposition. The question before the House was whether they would provide a certain test. the literacy test. before people could immigrate to our country. A commission was proposed to investigate the matter. If it was germane. then it was in order.
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