Another material provision was an amendment offered by the distinguished gentleman from Nevada . which was not agreed to in conference. It was thought that the provision for the ascertainment of statistics in regard to labor in the Hawaiian Islands was ample in the bill as it stood and that therefore the amendment was unnecessary. The other amendment which was stricken out was the amendment of the gentleman from Missouri requiring the deportation of the Japanese and Chinese laborers from the island of Hawaii at the rate. I think. of 10 per cent a ye).r. The Senate insisted upon that provision being stricken out. and the reasons in favor of doing so were very forcible. from the fat that the moment these labor contracts are at an end a Japanese subject is as free a citizen of Hawaii as any other person. and we could not deport him without running in direct opposition to our treaty provisions with Japan.
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