The country cares "very little whether Commissioner Watson obeys the law. but it cares a great deal as to whether or not the contractlabor law has been violated and whether or not contract laborers are being admitted contrary to the laws of the United States. I think it is quite possible. I will say in answer to the gentleman from Mississippi and the gentleman from South Carolina . that the Secretary of Commerce and Labor will reply that the admission of these immigrants is permitted under that clause in the law which admits skilled labor if labor of like kind miemployed can not be found in the United States. I do not understand that the facts will bear out the contention which I heard made in the Senate only yesterday as to the labor situation in South Carolina. but it may be that the Secretary of Commerce and Labor thinks that the presentation of the case made by the Senator from Georgia and the Senator from South Carolina is a correct one. If such is the Secretarys view.
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