Speech #650280011

President. I wish to say a word more. and I shall be very brief. because I desire. as much as any other Senator can. the Senate to get through with this bill expeditiously. I thought it was incumbent upon me. as the Committee on Immigration has not acted on this matter and may not do so if it is the sense of the Senate that all legislation on this question shall await the treaties. to suggest that the bill be withdrawn from the Senate Committee on Immigration and referred either to tile Committee on Military Affairs or to the Committee on Foreign Relations. if it is to be handled from either standpoi)t. On the other hand. If I felt it was the sense of Ilhe Senate. without waiting for these treaties or regardless of themand I rather think that the House of Representalives is right. and that we have the power. if it were good policy to exercise it. because there is nothing In the treaties that would require us to let people who are not citizens. except temporarily. stay in this country that we did not want to stayif the Senate does not want to deal with it from tint standpoint. then I think that the ileasure ought to be referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. and I shall ask the Senate to give it that direction ait :s later period.