Speech #710022186

I want to submit to the Senate that the amendment which has just been presented by the Senator from South Carolina is an amendment that ought not to be put upon a census or reapportionment bill. Whatever may be the merits of the amendmentand I do not propose to enter into a discussion of themit is of a sort and a character that has no place upon the measure which is pending before the Senate at the present time. and I trust that the amendment will not be pressed. I think the Senator from South Carolina is in error in saying that the amendment in the form of a bill has been reported favorably by the Immigration Committee and has been passed by the Senate at a previous session. I think he has in mind an entirely different bill. which was presented by him and which was passed by the Senate. went to the House. went to conference. and finally became a law. This is another measure entirely. which. in my opinion and in my recollection. never has been acted upon favorably by the Immigration Committee and never has been reported to the Senate.