Speaker. I raise the point of jurisdiction. The next point I raise is that this bill is not properly before the House and therefore could not properly be before the Rules Committee. because the standing committee created under the law for the purpose of considering legislation pertaining to various phases of deportation did not consider the bill. Since the Congress. by its precedents. which I am ready to present to the Speaker. has created this committee. I say there is no jurisdiction at this time to consider this legislation. We might as well send a farm bill to the Committee on Immigration or an immigration bill to the Committee on Agriculture. I say that this bill has no semblance of bearing on any question which should be dealt with by the Judiciary Committee. and that we are trespassing upon the prerogatives of the House and also the standing committees which this House has created. We are destroying every principle of legislation by this method. and I submit that the mere fact that I did not move. on the next morning or at any other time after the introduction of the bill. when it was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. to have it referred back to the Committee on Immigration does not deprive me of raising the question of jurisdiction now. If the Speaker sees fit to permit me to go into the question. I have taken the time to study the history of the creation of the committee and the powers granted and the designation of bills pertaining to certain legislation.
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