I had hoped. Mr. President. that it would be in order. to the end that we might send so important and so substantive a matter to a standing committee of the Senate for consideration. because at this hour in the consideration of the pending bill. for us to attempt to pass upon the substance of a law which has been carefully arrived at after considerable study. and which is embodied not only in the immigration laws of 1924. but as amended in 1940. would be to take a grievously unfair and erroneous course. I feel so strongly on the subject that I would have been perfectly willing to submit the matter to the consideration of a standing committee. which might inquire into all the facts. but In the absence of parliamentary provision making that course possible I r.ust strenuously object to the amendment as offered.
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