Session #56 · 1899–1901

Speech #560025149

Here is a Territorial legislature. if you please. enacting laws. I am going to make an illustration. They enacf laws which permit contract labor. or .what amounts to contract labor. to come in there from Japan under certain circumstances. The judge on the bench. as a judge of the Territory of Hawaii. for instance. says. "Well. this law appears to me to be constitutional. it is within the purview of the powers of the Hawaiian government. it is sustained by public opinion here. my friends are interested in the enactment of this law. and J will sustain it." He turns to the next docket. the criminal docket of his court. and he will find one of these men indicted as violating the laws of the United States for making a contract and bringing that man in. He determines. for we place the duty upon him of determining. whether he will sustain the Territorial law or whether he will sustain the other law.
Keywords matched
contract labor

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
80%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural Economic contributor

Speaker & context

Speaker
JOHN MORGAN
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
AL
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
560025149
Paragraph
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