Mr. Chairman. that the gentleman from Massachusetts desires to accomplish exactly what I do. but I am afraid that the resolution which annexed Hawaii and which continued in force the Hawaiian laws. and section 10 of this bill. which undertakes to deal with the labor contracts. will still leave this question in doubt. The power to exclude contract laborers and the power to prohibit the steamship owners from carrying them there is what is needed and is just what my amendment will give. It is a short paragraph. and it can do no harm. and may do much good. I do not want us to take any risk about it. I know that this very language was passed by the House in the last Congress without a division. but the Senate for some reason refused to adopt it. There have been brought into Hawaii within the last year over 30.000 laborers under contract. in violation of our law. Unleis you make it perfectly plain that we intend to prevent alien contract labor. it will be brought in. to the great detriment of the honest laborers of this country. Those who dominate these islands want such labor. and the provisions of section 10. which only permits suits on such contracts. will not break up the system.
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