If you gentlemen are prepared on either side to take a step to annul that salutary legislation. you have the opportunity to do it now. It is up to you to do it or not to do it. As a member of the Immigration Commission I visited the Azores last spring and found that individuals under the guise of the Hawaiian government had been there getting laborers to go to Hawaii in violation of our contractlabor law. Mr. Speaker. there were those who believed that under the rulings of the AttorneyGeneral in the South Carolina case our law was not stringent enough. and at the last session of Congress a law was passed forbidding the States to engage in this very business.
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