Mr. Speaker. in connection with the debate in the House during the closing week of the third session of the Seventyfirst Congress. permit me to say that during my 18 years as a Member of the House I have seen many strenuous debates on the subject of immigration restriction. I remember the debates in connection with the passage and the veto of the restriction bill by President Taft in 1913 just as I was entering Congress. I remember the strenuous debates in connection with the passage of the Burnett bill and the two vetos of it by President Wilson. and then the strenuous debates during the consideration of the temporary restriction bill of 1921 and the permanent act of 1924 and other pieces of legislation since I have had the honor to be the chairman of the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. Although all of these were bitter. I believe I have never seen more intense feeling and more strained relations than in connection with legislation attempted to be passed within the last week. I do not propose to wrangle with members of the Tammany delegation from New York. Their actions and opposition to anything that interferes with the efforts to regulate and restrict immigration are so well known that there is no need of comment. In previous Congresses many Tammany leaders have asked others and myself to bear down still harder for further restriction and have apologized for the fact because of their constituency they would be unable to vote for restrictive measures. In fact.
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