KELLEY: Oh. hold your horses. The act repealed itself when Johnny came marching home and went at once to work in mine. furnace. or factory. We put a cheek upon that work by passing an act which authorized the President to appoint a commissioner. who should supervise the steamships and prevent the cruelty of which immigrants complained. and who should see that they should make no contract that should bind them for more than twelve months. It was an act in defense of labor as well as of the unity and honor of the country. Here it is on page 386 of the United States Statutes at Large. volume 13.
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