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I certainly do not. But the point I want to bring out in the course of the discussion is that the enactment of the Harris bill would haie no such effect. I find a similar idea expressed in the statement written for the House Committee on Immigration by Professor Garis. when he said: According to the Business Mens Commission. previously referred to. the cotton acreage in the United States rose from 33.036.000 acres in 1922 to 48.730.000 in 1926. the increase In the main being due to the development of cotton production in the Southwest on land formerly used for grazing. But for the subsidy resulting from cheap Mexican labor much of this land would be below the margin of cultivation under existing conditions. This normally submarginal land has added to the surplus cotton crops of recent years and has tended to lessen the profits of all producers of cotton in this country.