If the Department makes a recommendation will the committee accept it? Listen to what. happened only a few months ago. We passed a bill for the deportation of Chinese seamen who deserted here from the lendlease shipssome witnesses told us that Chinese have deliberately deserted ships. and they cannot be shipped back. We had a number of witnesses before the committee and we were convinced that that was the story. We passed a bill. and it went to the Senate. The Senate passed it and then recalled it. because it was discovered that there was another side to the picture. After this action by the Senate I took the trouble myself to go to Ellis Island one day and spent all day there with the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization and interrogated these deserting Chinese seamen. and it gave us an entirely different picture than the one presented to the committee by some of the witnesses.
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