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some one finds a proposal which will be ideal, and does not run counter
to hard realities, which we must face, it seems to us that we can not
blindly destroy the economic status of a tremendous group of American
 citizens without determining fairly and squarely what the alternative
 shall be. We should like to have you ask yourselves which
of these two alternatives you choose. We see no other and have
heard no other proposed.
We contend with other witnesses that this committee does not
have the full picture. May I illustrate? At Ogden about October
1, last, Professor Garis stated that he has been employed by the
House Immigration Committee to make a careful study of the Mexitan
 immigration problem and report-back to the committee.
We do earnestly object to having the fate of the inhabitants of
one-third of the area of this country put in serious jeopardy through
reports based upon such faulty and inadequate research.
Under these circumstances you can not act properly in reporting
out any quota legislation until you can at the same time recommend
very definitely a future line of procedure to meet adequately the
serious situation which exclusion under any of these bills will create.
Mr. Box. 1 think there is a misunderstanding right there. The
House Immigration Committee did not employ Doctor Garis, and
he said he did not make that statement. I had it explicitly from him
that he did not make that statement.
Mr. Tavror. He made it specifically to me. I asked him.
Mr. Box. Professor Garis was asked by Congressman Jenkins
and myself to do some work for us, and it was made plain that it did
not represent work for this committee, but my own studies and those
of Mr. Jenkins, and I spoke to him about that incident and he became
very indignant and said it was a gross misrepresentation, that he
made no such statement.
Mr. Tavyror. Mr. Chairman, all IT can say is that I was there and
he made that statement. I knew nothing about the statement except
as he came out there and made it to me.
_ The CrarrMan. Well, that ought to be cleared up a little. From
time to time we have asked various persons who could spare the time
to make studies for us and they have appeared in the hearings for the
tosh five or six years. The committee can not find tire to go every-Where.
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Mr. Tavror. I appreciate that. I do not object to him doing that
at all, Mr. Chairman. The only thing is, I just made the statement
here that he came out there and said he was representing the committee,
 and that is what I am going to lead up to. I have no objection
 to it. The more investigations made, the better. The thing we
want is that they should be made fairly and effectively.
As late as September 13, less than three weeks earlier, a questionaire
 on Mexican immigration was sent out to officers of some of our
farm organizations and signed by Congressmen Jenkins and Box of
this committee. We understood that these questionnaires were part
of Professor Garis’s study.
Mr. Box. Professor Garis’ work was part of our study.
Mr. Tayror. I was not familiar with that until you explained the
Matter. All that I had was what I got from him at Ogden. We felt
from our experiences with receivers of the questionnaires that they