Speech #730181480

The facts about these subversive activities directed and financed from abroad. which this special committee has been directed to find. cannot harm any American citizen. nor even any alien resident in the United States. who is attached to the principles of our Government. 14ow. Mr. Speaker. some critical statements have -been made against the action of this special committee whereby it appointed as committee secretary a man who had previously been carried on the pay roll of this House as janitor of the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. Mr. Speaker. that action of the committee is correct. but the criticism is unjust. My colleagues on the other side of the aisle who are members of this special committee. and who are. or have been. on the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. the gentleman from Ohio and the gentlemen from Tennessee. have expressed commendation of the ability of Mr. Randolph. I want to say that for a long time I have paid from my own pocket a considerable sum to Mr. Randolph. who has been the official janitor for the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization ever since I have been chairman of that committee. The official clerk of that committee has been unable to do all of the work required in connection with this very active committee. and to many of you Mr. Randolph has been known as the assistant clerk. I have arranged additional pay for him so that he might receive a total salary in keeping with his services. which have been invaluable to the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization for several years. Mr. Randolph rendered unusual service last autumn during all the time a subcommittee of the Immigration and Naturalization Committee conducted the informal investigation of this unAmerican Nazi propaganda. His expert knowledge of procedure and of the thousands of communications in the files. together with his native ability. convinced me that no one was better fitted to fill the important position of clerk. or secretary. for this special committee. and I am glad to say that Mr. Randolph was elected to that position and given the salary he receives now by the unanimous vote of the entire membership of this special committee.