Speech #720074726

I rise here on a matter on which I think the House ought to be well informed. I do not want politics to be played on something that we all might agree on. A petition has been filed by my distinguished colleague. the gentleman from West Virginia . to discharge the Committee on Immigration from the consideration of a bill before the committee which is commonly known as H. R. 1967. The bill. in substance. proposes. to exclude from the United States and to deport alien communists. It would appear by the filing of this petition that the committee is in favor of alien communists. and that it deliberately refuses to report out a bill that would destroy the nests of these alien communists. I assure the gentleman who introduced the bill and the House that the committee is almost unanimous on this question of deporting alien com.munists. The reason that this bill was not reported out is because the committee has serious doubt as to whether or not" the words "alien communists" should be left alone in reporting out the bill. At least I for one feel that the words "alien communists" ought to be surrounded by more language to identify the person sought to be deported or excluded.