Speech #800016160

I hope that the present Attorney General realizes that the sentiment of the American people is in favor of sensible and efficient restriction. The people are not in favor of wholesale importation of all classes of people. many of whom will never espouse our ideals and many of whom will undermine our theory of government at every opportunity. Another great blow was suffered by the cause of immigration when in the Reorganization Act by which the Congress was recently reorganized the Immigration Committee was done away with. While for the past few years under the RooseveltPerkins administration this committee did not function as I think it should to be in consonance with American sentiment. still it was an organized group of Congressmen In whose responsibility this great work was vested from a legislative standpoint. By the reorganization law immigration legislation is placed within the jurisdiction of the Judiciary Committee. I am in a way glad for this change in view of the very high standing of the Judiciary Committee. A subcommittee of that great committee has been appointed to deal with immigration legislation. I am sure that if that subcomrnMe will have time from its other important duties to function that it will function efficiently. I have the greatest respect for the membership of that subcommittee and I have privately and I do now publicly -pledge to them my most loyal support.