In my own State of California very frequently the moral sense of our people has been shocked by discovering some Chinese or Japanese woman restrained of her liberty and passed as a chattel from hand to hand at almost fabulous prices. A Chinese woman In San Francisco will bring. or would have brought before the passage of the present law. from two to three thousand dollars. Now. it is the desire of all the people of the United States to have passed any legislation that may be necessary to put an end to this traffic. and the Committee on Immigration "and Naturalization only desires in this bill to prevent as far as the law can prevent the transportation in interstate and foreign commerce of women for this immoral purpose. Congress alone. under the Constitution and the decisions of the courts. can do this. The States are powerless.
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