In Congress I have supported restrictive imumigration legislation. The conditions in Europe following the World War demanded that the United States protect its own interests and those of its people by preventing an influx of aliens. I voted against Japanese immigration and took an active part in preventing the administration from handling that question by a "gentlemens agreement." To have tolerated such a policy would have given immigation the color of being an international question. It is purely a domestic question. subject alone to the action of Congress and the American people. No other nation nor foreign influence has any right either to dictate or suggest to the people of the United States what their policy shall be with reference to immigration. Thirtyseventh. I have.left off some large committee assignments I could have secured so as to stay on the committee dealing with drainage and so as to make a fight to give the wet lands of the South the same help given in the way of irrigation to the lands of the West.
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