What value is there in enacting a bill to prohibit the whiteslave traffic when the first time an indictment is made under the bill the court declares the law unconstitutional. if that should be the case? We are not without light on the pending proposition. This is not the first time that the distinguished Commitee on Immigration and Naturalization has tried its hand at preparing legislation along these lines. In the immigration law they inserted a section for punishing the whiteslave traffic. and in that law they provided almost identically in the language of the pending bill. with one exception. namely: That whoever shall keep. maintain. control. support. or harbor in any house or other place. for the purpose of prostitution. or for any other immoral purpose. any alien woman or girl. within three years after she shall have entered the United States. shall in every such case be deemed guilty of a felony. The distinction between the pending bill and that law is that there is no limitation of time in the pending bill. In the law it provided that whoever harbored an alien woman for the purpose of prostitution within three years of her entry into the country should be declared a felon.
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