However. I have forwarded to the Attorney General of the United States the complete files involving the cases of both the Portuguese aliens in Connecticut and the Chinese ship jumpers along with the request that these allegations be given special attention and appropriate steps be taken to stop this racket. At the same time I am suggesting that both the Senate and the House Judiciary Committees should reexamine the present rule relating to the introduction of private bills. the manner in which they should be handled. and to what extent they should affect deportation proceedings. In this statement I do not mean to infer that there is anything wrong with the introduction of a private bill by a Member of Congress to take care of what he thinks is a meritorious case. and there is nothing wrong with the Judiciary Committees and the Congress considering these bills on their merits. but under no circumstance can it ever be proper for any attorney or group of attorneys to conduct a bucketshop operation where they are selling the services of a Member of Congress. and most certainly Congress cannot allow to go unchallenged or unanswered the inference that the introduction of a bill in Congress was contingent upon a payment or a campaign contribution. Our country was established by our ancestors. all of whom were aliens. and many aliens entering our country today prove to be among the most loyal of citizens.
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