For 13 years I have been a member of this committee. I assisted In the bill when President Taft was in office. and It was vetoed. and then. as a member of the committee during all the legislation that. brought about the act of 1917. which was vetoed twice and then passed over the Presidents veto. and also assisted In the subsequent legislation. The Committee on Immigration was given the power to study the immigration question. The committee took testimony in .Washington and went to New. York and other places and spent two months and a half In the Western States taking testimony relating to immigration. In addition to that. during the last year I spent practically all of my time after the adjournment of Congress on March 4 in going over the United States and visiting practically all the .cities of the United States. I spent two and a half months on tile Hawelian ISlands and I visited every island and saw every .sugar pliatation there except one.
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