The Congress is not inclined to pass laws for no particular reason. It Is necessary to make a firm and important showing of facts before any law is enacted. especially a law which appropriates money. It seems to me this is a very pertinent consideration in respect to the bills dealing with migrant labor which we passed at this session of Congress. They involved the expenditure of millions of dollars. They extended programs over a period of years. The enactment of such laws. and the concurrence in their adoption by many Senators who are extremely careful about even the smallest expenditure. seems to me to be confirmation of the fact that it is high timeindeed. the time is long overduethat these migrant workers had our attention in the national sense and received some help in the elementary matters of education. health. and sanitation. insofar as the Federal Government is concerned. A bill of this character precisely affects very directly the likelihood that the migrant workers may find their way. somehow or other. to a higher plateau of personal wellbeing. such as is vouchsafed to most American workers. It seems to me the presence of the American migrant workers. as well as the condition of the American migrant workers. which we are seeking to remedy by legislation. are confirmation of the fact that. at the very least. a real effort should be made by legislation to establish some parity between them and the Mexican workers. It should not be a parity on the way down. but a parity on the way up. We should be very loath to enact any legislation which would allow the depressing effect of Mexican farmworkers to continue upon the general status and general position of the migrant worker. I speak with some authority with respect to migrant workers. for I am a member of the subcommittee which deals with the problem. I have studied its documents and evidence. and have delved to a considerable extent into the facts and figures. My experience gives me the greatest confirmation in terms of joining those who are so vigorously and devotedly opposing the conference report because it fails to meet the cardinal issue which the McCarthy amendment presented. that is. that it Is high time this whole area of workers was somewhat upgraded. because it is having such a depressing effect on those who are so low in the economic scale. That is our experience with regard to migrant workers in the United States. I feel greatly confirmed in the opposition which I have expressed to the conference report. By way of proof of the depressing effect of Mexican farm labor and its employment upon the situation of the American agricultural worker and particularly upon the situation of the migrant worker. I should like to give some facts. I should like to give some facts upon that very subject.