It has a much wider scope and intention than that. It provides. in the fitst place. that only citizens of the United States. or those who shall have declared their intention of becoming citizens in the ordinary legal method. shall be employed on the public works of the United States. I have been informed by an inspector of immigration on the Lakes that in one day in last December $4.000 were paid in wages by one firm of contractors to aliens and $2.700 by another. I use that merely as an example of the evil which it is proposed to reach. I believe.
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