Speech #710172359

Chairman Legge made an unwise statement one day recently with reference to cotton. and on the New York Cotton Exchange cotton went down $2.50 a bale that day. and it kept going down because the cotton trade had notice that the Farm Board was not going to do anything to help them as the cotton trade had expected would be done. Only last week Senator BotAn criticized Chairman Legge for opposing the debenture which would help the cotton and wheat growers. Mr. President. the State Department in 1924 opposed immigration legislation that we passed. The President of the United States opposed certain parts of it relating to immigration from Japan. Some of those who were opposed to the bill were trying to destroy it by declaring that it caused unfriendly relations between Japan and the United States. I was one of the conferees on that bill.