It is not convincing to argue that $2.000 will enable a committee of five Members of the House by the inquiry here proposed to obtain information which may furnish the basis for needed legislation. If the gentleman from New York will do what he now states he is willing to do. in reply to a question put to him by the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. CocHRAN]-namely. prohibit all immigration for the time beingand which he says. I repeat. he wants to do. and if he will go further and require the registration of all aliens and pass a law making it unlawful to employ in gainful employment anyone who cannot show that he is an American citizen. he will go far toward driving out of this country all aliens now unlawfully here and will at the same time remove the chief incentive for their coming here. The Committee on Immigration is clothed with full authority to bring in legislation which will correct all of the secret wrongs and violations to which the gentleman from New York calls attention. and while he seems to have very full information as to what is going on. yet apparently he feels unable to draft legislation to correct the wrongs. I submit it would establish a bad precedent for the House to appropriate $2.000 to enable a select committee. which admits it now has much information of violations and wrongdoing. to make an inquiry for the purpose of recommending needed legislation.
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