Speaker. what can one say in a few minutes on a subject of such importance? I am pleased that this resolution has taken form. and that an investigating committee will be appointed. All members of the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization will wish that committee well. We hope that its investigations will head up and expose some of the things that our committee knows about. If that committee should recommend a special secret service for the Government in connection with dangerous international activities against our own Government. it will have done something. The Bureau of Immigration has no secret service. not enough help. not enough money. If the new committee proves charges made over and over again by our Immigration Committee. we shall be grateful. If attention Is called to the important proposed legislation which the House committee already has on the calendars of the House. it may help some. I think those who are to be the five members of this select committee will learn something about House procedure before their legislative recommendations become law. I have had the honor to serve on the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization ever since I came to Congress 17 years ago. At the beginning of the organization of the extra session of the Sixtysixth Congress on May 19. 1919. I became chairman. and in 1920 the House Committee on Immigration reported the amendments to the alien deportation act of 1918. so that that act. as amended. is the only really effective law we have excluding and deporting alien enemies of our Government. and is as follows:
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