President. I fear that my friend from Arizona was a little harsh with my friend the Senator from Maine . The Senator from Maine has suffered. as he told. for three years as a member of the Immigration Committee over which I presided. He is now the chairman of that committee. so that his suffering there has assumed a new form. I think he had sufficient punishment serving upon the Immigration Committee under the chairman who presided over it for those three years to be immune here on the floor. But let me explain. if I can. what I think was in the mind of Congressman JOHNSON in the presentation of his measure. I endeavored to do it the other day in drawing a comparison between the two measuresthe Harris bill and the House billand I do. it now with some seriousness because of the importance of this legislation. In the Immigration Committee while I was chairman and subsequently in like fashion in the House committee. were held very elaborate hearings upon a bill for the restriction of Mexican immigration. The only thing that it was sought to remedy. as has repeatedly been stated upon the floor. by the bills which have been lending before the Immigration Committees. is Mexican immigration. That has been the source of a great deal of irritation to many of us and it has been. in the opinion of many. the source of a great wrong to our own people. In the endeavor to remedy that. various measures before the two committees have been pending for some years past.
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