Speech #770201654

In the opinion of the Rules Committee. there is nothing harmful in this resolution. and It has the capacity for doing a great deal of good in ascertaining for the House information that it ought to have. Ever since I have been here I have been what is known as a restrictionist. I have had to fight the Immigration Committee on many occasions. much more often than I have been with them. If I thought this was a resolution that was going to help get any more aliens in this country who did not belong here. or to keep a single alien here. I would have opposed the resolution coming out of the Rules Committee. and so would the majority of that committee. Now. that same thing Is true of the Immigration Committee. The Immigration Committee. as you all know. is divided on that subject. and when the Immigration Committee comes to you and says that "we unanimously. both sides of this question. after investigation. think that our committee ought to go forward in our investigation and have authority to summon witnesses and see if we can find out the facts"-when both the restrictionists and the other people on that committee agree. why in the world ought there be all of this heat on this subject? The worst that can be said about it is that it certainly cannot do anybody any harm. Somebody said. "You will bring in some legislation that will let all of these aliens Into the country." Well. they have brought in a lot of legislation and every time they have. we have defeated it.