I am earnestly in favor of both those measures. I have voted. I think twice. to pass the immigration bill over the Presidents veto. I am prepared to do so again. I have long been in favor of a childlabor bill and of the oxerelse of any power that the National Government has with reference to child labor. I was glad when the committee submitted a report to the Senate recommending a bill along those lines. It was charged the other day that it was a matter of politics in offering the immigration bill as an amendment to the cliildlabor bill. I. of course. do not know what the motives of the Senator from Idaho were in offering it. but. so far as I am concerned. in supporting the amendment I am not animated by political motives at all. It is not a political question. it is entirely nonpartisan. The large majority of the Members of both parties have heretofore voted for the Immigration bill. a large majority of both parties have heretofore voted to override the veto of a Republican President and a large majority of both parties have voted to override the veto of a Democratic President. There is no partisan difference upon the bill. and my support of it as an amendment to the childlabor bill is based entirely and solely upon my feeling in favor of legislation of that character and has no political significance whatever. I believe that there is no measure that the country better understands and is more earnestly in favor of than the immnigration bill.
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