The record suggests not the slightest dereliction on the part of those charged with the duty of computing and publishing the quotas. as required by the act. We think the foregoing shows that this situation and the proposition based on it does not result from fatal vices in the law. nor from any default on the part of those who were to compute and publish the quotas. This leaves us no basis on which to account for this situation and for this proposition to change the law for the benetit of those who have already come in conflict with it now before the House. other than the fact that the steamship companies and the immigrants now to be relieved are alone responsible for a situation created by them in disregard of our law. with full knowledge of the consequences in. their possession. or properly imputable to them. and that It is now proposed by this resolution that we compromise the majesty and dignity of the law for the profit and convenience of those who acted in contempt of our Government. This measure is for the benefit of two groupsthe steamship companies and the immigrants they have brought. The steamship lines are in the main foreign ones. they are associated together. and continuously maintain representatives. secret and known. in Washington for the purpose of influencing legislation. including. of course. knowledge of what is proposed and done. They are usually. if not always. present at the meetings of your Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. Frequently their reporters take down. the proceedings of the committee. including the words of its members. to be reported to their foreign masters. We have no doubt they watch the.
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