The men constituting the joint boards really become. so to speak. representatives of the commission for a particular piece of work just the same as the examiner is a representative of the commission. When a member from the State commission of Arizona. California. or any other State sits in a hearhing. whether it involves a certificate of public convenience and necessity or some other question. for that particultr purpose he Is a Federal agent representing the Federal Govermuent just exactly as the judge of your State court. when he passes upon a question of naturalization. is a representative of the Federal Government. When the Congress is willing to leave to the State courts such important questions as those of naturalization matters. making the State courts Federal agencies. surely there ought not to be any objection whatever to Congress trying this experiment of using the local authorities. members of State commissions. who know far more about the situation in their own States and in the neighboring States than any examiner who could be sent into that territory from the Interstate Commerce Commission. could possibly know. I say. let us try out. in an experimental and in a practical way. this proposition and see whether or not it will give us some light for the future and in this way reduce the work that is being continually piled up on the commission.
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