Speaker. in your effort. Let me repeat that at present we are actually doing the very thing which the people of Californig wish to be done. and to upset the arrangement under which this is being done can not do good and may do great harm. If in the next year or two the figures of immigration prove itt the arrangement which has worked so succeqsfully during the last six months Is no longer working successfully. then there would be ground for grievance and for the reversal by the National Government of its present policy. But at present the policy is working well. and until it works badly it would be a grave misfortune to change It. and when chang..d it can only be changed effectively by the National Government. TnaoDowE RooSIVELT. Mr. SHORTRII)GE. He eoncludesI know that Senators are called away to attend to other matters. but I beg those who are present to note what President Roosevelt said: If In the next year or two the figures of immigration prove that the arrangement which has worked so successfully during the last six mouths Is no longer working successfully. then there would be ground for grievance and for tihe reversal by the National Governinent of its present policy. But at present the policy is working well. and until it works badly it would be a grave misfortune to chaage it. and when changed it can only be changed effectively by the National Government. In a letter addressed to former Congressman Kent. of Callfornia. lresident Roosevelt stated the saute thing in substance.
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