Here is the provision of the bill: SEC. 10. That all obligations. contracts. rights of action. suits at law and in equity. prosecutions. and judgments existing prior to thle taking effect of this act shall continue to be as effectual as if this act had not been passed. In another section we repeal the provision of the Hawaiian constitution and all the Hawaiian enactments or statutes which allow punishment of those contract laborers by imprisonment and whipping. and then turn around and say that all existing contracts niust be fulfilled. and that the law. so far as they are concerned. must continue in effect. It is to give three or five more years of slave labor to the sugak corporations which are behind this ill. which were behind the annexation resolution. and which have sent their sugar in here until we have remitted duties to the amount of $80.000.000. And then you get up and attack South Carolina because her vote is small!
Keywords matched
contract laborers