Frear. of the Hawaiian Islands. A hundred thousand dolars was appropriated to carry out the purpose of the resolution. The resolution also provided that "there shall be no further immigration of Chinese into the Hawaiian Islands." . That commission. after an excursion to the islands. filed their report in December. 1898. and with it presented a bill with their recommendation. which is the same as the bill presented by one of the commissioners in the Senate and one of the commissioners in the House of Representatives. Never before has a commission presented a measure to either body withprovisions so unAmerican. so hostile to the genius of our institutions. as the bill recommended by i.his commission. The bill now before the House is that bill torn to pieces and dismantled by the committee. and. save on the subject of contract labor. it might be identified as American. This Hawabiian bill nowhere and in no wise protects or encourages American labor. here or there. and this policy is in keeping with the actions of this and last Congress dating back from this hour to the hour of the admission of the Hawaiian Islands. It is time to call a halt and to make an inquiry. You of the majority have done nothing. absolutely nothing. to prohibit the importation of contract labor into the Hawaiian Islands. because influences there and here believe they can exploit them for commercial endsthe only motive that moves thembetter by contract labor. and I will prove it. You call caucuses to pass party measures. Why not go to some extremes to protect labor and destroy this infamous contractlabor system?
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