I notice in the minority views a statement to the effect that certain statements in the report 6n the bill are offensive. I hope that they will not be looked at in that sense. That charge can only refer to the statements concerning the examination of steerage passengers on two ships and to the possible statements made in the appendix. which carries the reports of the consular agents of the United States. paraphrased in the offices of the State Departmnent and set forth in the report which accompanies H. R. 14461 exactly as sent to the chairman of the Immigration Committee. If they convey statements which are presumed to be facts. it is hardly my duty to soften them. The chairman of the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization becomes used to being called names. I would like to say at the outset. although I have been called so. I am not an alien hater at all. I come from a district that has 27 per cent of foreign born. I have no religious or racial feeling in this matter. I have not in the debate in the committee and hearings in the committee permitted matters of a racial or a religious tone to enter. and I sincerely hope that they will not come into this debate.
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