Mr. Speaker. having obtained the right to extend my remarks on the Immigration bill (now in conference) and which is to come before the House again on Thursday. May 15. I wish to call the attention of the membership of the House to some. in my mind. very serious weaknesses of the bill. which I hope will be remedied by again sending the bill back in conference with unmistakable instructions. I was one of those who voted to send this bill back into conference with instructions to delete from the bill the extention of time for the exclusion of Japanese immigration to go into effect that had been written into the bill in conference at the request of President Coolidge. I so voted because it was against the clearly expressed dictum of both House and Senate as the immigration bill came out of either House. I do not believe that a conference comnittee should write a new law. contrary to the expressed will of the majority. I did not vote as I did because I believed that the difference in time between July 1. 1924. and March 1. 1925. would spell such a grave danger to the country from the Japanese immigration. I was one of those who wholeheartedly supported the bill on its discussion and passage in the House. I believe that as the bill was when it left the house it was fairly representative of the majority opinion of the country.
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