Speaker. I want to say a few words only in explanation of the resolution which I introduced. It asked that the Immigration Commission be requested to go to the State of Mississippi and to the State of Arkansas and make an investigation to ascertain if there was a condition of peonage existing there. I included the State of Arkansas. because the gentleman who represents the particular district in which the peonage was alleged to exist wanted the investigation made. and for the further reason that although the plantation upon which the peonage. is -charged to exist is in the State of Arkansas it is operated and managed by citizens of Mississippi. residents of my home town. In answer to the gentleman from Illinois .
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