But many groups and special interests banded together under camouflaged names. such as "The Interracial Council." under other names. and no known name. to oppose that bill in the Senate after it had passed the House. As one of the members of the House committee I had made the fight in the committee and in the House itself for its passage. When the legislation was being delayed and opposed in the Senate I went before the Senate Committee on Immigration in favor of Its passage and in opposition to its being weakened or broken down by exceptions which would flood the country with Mexican peons and other pauper laborers. A veteran newspaper correspondent. who saw the fight I was making before the Senate committee and the powers of the opposition. said that it was a fight for the welfare of the people as against special interests. The following are his words used at the time: To a large degree the hearings were a case of the general interest versus special interests.
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