ir. Speaker. the facts as officially ascertained. which makes it undesirable to delay longer Such legislatioii 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 resolution 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 contractswere made before the bill was introduced. The making of the contracts was the cause for 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 introduction of these Japanese coolies save only the gentleman from. Massachusetts. and he wants them for a special purpose. to wit. to assist the House of Representatives in passing a bill for the Committee on Territories.
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