Chairman. I would like to call attention to the fact that if section 509 had been introduced as a separate bill. it would not even have been referred to the Committee on Agriculture. It would have gone to the Immigration Committee. Now we are faced with a situation of having to pass upon a question which our committee had no right under the rules of the House to even consider and because it happens to be a provision in a Senate bill certainly does not make it germane to the bill now before us. We are attempting to amend an agricultural bill. If the pending amendment is approved. it will greatly enlarge the scope of the subject with which we are dealing. It should not be held to be germane because there is no provision in this bill which came from the House Committee on Agriculture dealing with the problem of immigration generally. It deals only with agricultural aid. The pending amendment seeks to make it apply to even domestics or to people in all other vocations and avocations of life in this country.
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