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WESTERN HEMISPHERE IMMIGRATION

Mr. DickstEiN. What is the amount of the immigration, if you
know, from Mexico—what to you get in your particular area?
Mr. Yares. I am sorry to say I am not informed, but it has fallen
off more than one-half.
Mr. Dickstein. What did you get at first, about, a year if you
know, or at any time?
Mr. Yates. I do not know the numbers. As I told you, I came
in not very well prepared.
Mr. Ramey. Have you ever taken up the matter with the Department,
 of Labor or anything of that kind. to see if they could help
you solve the problem?
Mr. Yates. Personally I have not, sir. I am a lawyer, but others
have. I do not know what they have done; but we will be glad to
furnish you with information, and I think we could satisfy a committee
 that will go on the ground and investigate——
The CHAIRMAN, A labor committee?
Mr. Yates. Yes, sir, those. who will go there with an open mind
to find out what the facts are.
Mr. Box. Are you familiar with the statute that was passed to
keep labor solicitors of other States out of Texas? Do you remember
what that statute was? Co
Mr. Yates. No sir; I have not come in contact with it.
Mr. Box. You have not read that?
Mr. Yates. I believe I have read it at one time, but I do not
remember the provisions.
Mr, Box. Did not the Supreme Court hold it invalid?
Mr. Yates. 1 believe it did.
Mr. Box. You have not that available to furnish to the committee?
Mr. Yates. No, sir.
The CrmairmMan. We are very much obliged to you.

STATEMENT OF HON. ALBERT G. SIMMS, A REPRESENTATIVE IN
CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO

The CuairmaN. You are a Representative in Congress from New
Mexico?
Mr. Simms. Yes, sir. I have with me, and wish to introduce to
the committee, by arrangement, Mr. B. P. Fleming, the manager
and representative of the Elephant-Butte irrigation district, of southcentral
 New Mexico, and Mr. Roland Carwell of El Paso, who is the
manager and representative of the El Paso County Water Consumers
Association.
I shall be brief. Both these gentlemen represent component parts
of the area served by the Klephant-Butte Dam in southern New
Mexico. This is a Reclamation Bureau project and has been in
successful operation for about 15 years.
I commend to the committee these two gentlemen whom I have just
mentioned, and suggest that their long familiarity with the questions
that they hope to discuss with the committee, will enable then to give
you precise and definite information about the subjects that interest
them. It happens that our situation is not identical with the conditions
 touching those counties on the Rio Grande River known as
the lower river: that is to sav. the Brownsville area.