Mr. Chairman. the predicament of our friends upon the other side who favor this bill. Against their duty to obey the Constitution comes the desire not to antagonize the agricultural or industrial or labor interests of this country by admitting free of duty the products of the several islands annexed. and neither do they wish to antagonize any of these interests by removing all restrictions upon immigration from these islands. The predicament in which they find themselves is serious. Upon the one side is the Constitution and the rights of the Puerto Rican people now. and the rights of all our other islands in the future. none of which can vote.
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