I hope the House will give this committee what they ask for to complete their investigation. which is. perhaps. the most important. connected with our investigations of this Congress. - There are matters of importance connected with that investigation that the committee have as yet to close up. and. as a consummatio of their work. to report a bill of some kind. so that we may effectuate more stringently the laws now on our statutebook. or right them where they are deficient. I notice in the journals that the committee are now making an inquiry which I think is far beyond what the House ever intended in regard to contract labor. I believe in the present law. and the very purpose in originating that committee was to carry out that law in relation to contract labor that comes in from abroad. with a view to protect the great body of. our artisans. mechanics. and laborers of this country. but I see by the reports in the newspapers that the committee are now about to go further. and they are actually proposing to prevent foreign actorsthe old Thespiansfrom coming into this country.
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