Speech #480122067

Mr. President.. I know very well and I knew when I quoted this statute that it was enacted about the close of the war in 1864. and I read the date in my argument this morning. and I read it to showthat the principle of contract immigration had been adopted by the Repubcan party. The Senator in his argument here a few days since denounced the principle and said he proposed to support the bill now before the Senate because he condemned in tote the principle of contract immigration to this country. Now. the Senator changes his position and says that that principle was applied by the Republican party under the emergencies and contingencies of a greateivil war. In other words. he adopts the principle when he states that the emergency justified it.