Public Protection of Maternity and Infancy Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House of Representatives, First Session on H R 2366 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Public Protection of Maternity and Infancy: Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House of Representatives, Sixty-Seventh Congress, First Session on H. R. 2366

You can readily see, members of the committee and those who are here in interest, that it will be necessary for the committee not only to hear the arguments for and against this particular bill, but also to bear in mind the question of its availability or the wisdom of legislating on it at this time, and also various other aspects which might conflict with any one of the several movements directed toward consolidation and concentration. I mention these matters in order that you may all have a fair understanding of the scope of these hearings.

I wish to say it is rather embarrassing for the committee to be obliged to mix up the possible considerations of these various endeavors in order to work out efficient and concentrated methods in connection with the consideration of the actual merits of this bill. So I wish, quite in accord with what has been my particular experience with many of you, personally by word and more frequently by letter, to urge you to possess your souls In patience. This committee has not sidestepped nor avoided this issue at any moment. The chairman can be included in that statement. The committee has however, had its manifest duties to perform in connection with the Government of the United States and the possible and logical operations of the Congress. We have thus far undertaken to consider matters as they have appeared in logical order, With a view to fitting in with the general program, and it. Would never have been of any avail to have taken up this bill for consideration, so far as its passage through the House is to be considered. It could not have been reached. We therefore come to you, I believe - and I think it is due to the committee to have this said - with a frank, fiat statement that this bill coming up to-day is really in logical order for the. First time. T' Th'e chairman will ask Judge Towner, who has introduced the bill, to make any statement he chooses in regard to presenting the side of those in favor of the bill, and we shall be pleased, if possible, to act in accord with what is agreeable to him and those associated with hm.

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