Mr. President. I -am opposed to any modification whatever of the limitations imposed upon the hours of labor of labdrers and mechanics in the public service. whether that labor be the labor of American laborers or of alien laborers. I believe in the eighthour law. I believe it is a humane law. and I do not propose to be humane only to Americans and inhumane to aliens. If there is a place in Gods world where the eighthour law ought to prevail. it is on the Isthmus of Panama. where labor is exceedingly distressing. where the heat of the sun is such as to make it almost Impossible to labor during certain hours of the day.
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