I am not undertaking to state that fact with accuracy. but substantially I think I have stated the fact with accuracy. I say there is no controversy between us.. because the Senator from Missouri concedes all that I have ever contended. and that was that there was no. effort to take any authoritative. official. or binding action with respect to this matter. Senators may have passed some resolution stating� that theydid not want to take up. the Immigration bill just on the eve of election. but that has very little. weight with me. persuasive or otherwise. because I am committed to my constituency to take the immigration bill at the first and at every opportunity that I shall get. and regardless of any action that these gentlemen I might take. I think I can say that not only I but many other )emocratic Senators would vote to dispose of this immigration legislation. in which we believe sincerely and for which we are willing to fight stoutly wh?never the occasion arises. Now. so much for thait feature of it. Our caucus rules. of course. do not attempt or andertake to bind the Senators on the majority side to support any proposition about which they have constitutional scruples oi concerning which they have made pledges to their constituercies. Therefore the contenticin is not made. it could not be made. that with respect to the consideration of the immigration bill. either the Senator from Georgia or any other Senator on tils side of the Chamber is boid to vote not to consider it during the present session. The Senator from Missouri suggested that the proposition. to tie the immigration bill to tile childlabor bill as an mnie dament was a scheme of mine. in substance and effect that was his suggestion. that it was a method I had employed with which to fight childabor legislation. Mr. President. the Senator is In error about that. although. frankly. if I vote for thE amendment which the Senator from Idaho [Mr.
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