The section makes the steamship company one of the guilty parties. therefore you can receive no evidence from any of them. There are other and higher reasons that I could give why this section should be eliminated from the bill. but as the Senate has already made it a part and portion of the bill I shall say nothing about the other reasons. The bill is intended to prevent the importation of foreign labor by contract. which means cheap labor. pauper labor. and I might add vicious labor. which when brought to this country enters into competi tion with our laborers here. and our own laborer in the course of time from the result of that competition becomes a tramp. seeking bread from door to door. There are only two classes in this country who indulge in this kind of practice. the railroad corporations and the manufacturing corporalions. That the bill will very greatly interfere with the agricultural interest. as a fear has been expressedby both Senators from Texas.
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Foreign labor is described as 'cheap labor. pauper labor. and I might add vicious labor.'