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I will give the Senators a XXI507 little more if permitted. It seems that a committee of this body. presided over by the distinguished Senator from New Hampshire . went on a perambulating tour over this country taking testimony. and they got some valuable information. I find in the RECORD. page 2903. volume 19. part 3. in a speech by the distinguished Senator from Texas . the following in reference to testimony taken by that committee: They will find in this testimony taken by a committee presided over by a high protective Republican chairman tales of destitution. misery. and wretchedness among American laborers rivaling in pathos any ever told of pauper labor in Europe. I can not refer at length to this testimony for want ot time. but will read from the testimony of Thomas ODonnell. of Fall River. Mass.. commencing on page 451 of the third volumne of testimony.