But now. when the news comes that. a modified form of slavery has been revived in certain parts of this country. in isolated cases it is true. where. however. the mistreatment accorded to the poor victims is worse than ever occurred in slavery. and the Department of Justice sends a woman and a few detectives to investigate. we have this resolution presented asking how much it costs. and how many detectives were sent. Think of it. to even hint that human liberty can cost too much. that the Department of Justice can be too vigilant on behalf of human liberty! Now. Mr. Speaker. I am not going to discuss the question of whether peonage exists in any part of the United States. There was a resolution introduced and adopted by this House on March 2 providing that the Committee on Immigration should nake an investigation of that. But. sir. I deem it exceedingly unfortunate that this resolution should have been introduced sixteen days after we had adopted that other resolution of investigation.
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