Mr. Iresident. I call not but believe that our contractlabor laws are wise and that. except in cases of great emergency. it is better that immnigraition to this country should be either voluntary. and then that it should be restricted by such exclusions is may be necessary to safeguard our citizensliip and protect American labor. cr under State control to the end that only such classes of Immigrants iiay be solicited and aided to come as the States agents abroad. uninfluenced by any considerations except that of public good. may know or believe would make good and acceptaide citizens. Tile success of the South Carolina scheme through promotion by State agency .and the ruling of the Department of Connerce and Labor sustaining the right of the State to induce foreign imigration along the lilies pursued by the South Carolina commissioner of immigration offers to the South what I regard as a safe and practical plan to supply from abroad its labor deficiency while safeguarding it against tile dangers of unrestricted immigration. This decision has raised high hopes in the South. I believe it furnishes the longsought means of relief from a situation which has been growving more emergent every day. I would not support the amendments proposed by the conferees if. in my opinion. they would change the present law so as to interfere with the rights of the States under the law to promote foreign immigration by solicitation and inducement through its properly constituted officials and agents abroad. I am going to vote for the bill as amended by the conferees because I am convinced it makes no such changes in respect to this right of the States as the Senator from Georgia and the Senator from South Carolina fear. and because. as I said before. I an anxious to aid the people if the Pacific coast in their effort to protect themselves against an inflix of cheap alid undesirable oriental labor.
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