Mr. Speaker. the facts as officially ascertained. which make it undesirable to delay longer such legislation as this. are that 3.000 contract laborers are already known to have reached the Hawaiian Islands since the annexation. and that the very day following the passage of the resolutions of annexation contracts for the importation of only a few less than 6.000 laborers were approved by the government. and that some 3.900 of those laborers are to be brought in during the first quarter of 1899. The gentleman from Massachusetts is unfair when he says that these contracts were made before the bill was introduced. The making of the contracts was the cause of the introduction of the bill. There is nobody in the United States. so far as I know. that wants the door left open for the importation of these Japahese coolies. save only the gentleman from Massachusetts. and he wants them for a special purposeto wit. to assist the House of Representatives in passing a bill from the Committee on Territories.
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