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Speaker. the considerations which prompt the support of this .bill are so widespread and its objects are so well understood and meet with such universal approval that no explanation or.repetition of them need be made to this House. The bill aims to aid in the suppression of the whiteslave traffic by making it a felony to purchase interstate transportation for any woman going to a place for purposes of prostitution. The act. in section 6. also compels all keepers of disorderly houses who have in them alien women of less than three years residence in this country to file a report of such women with the CommissionerGeneral of Immigration. The traiffic which this bill seeks to suppress has reached such proportions that an international conference has been held for its consideration. and its conditions and extent in this country have been called to public attention by the report of the CommissionerGeneral of Immigration. both for the years 1907 and 1908. and by the recommendations of the Immigration Commission of December 10. 1909. To none more than to my colleagues who have spoken against this bill do its humanitarian objects. I am certain. appeal.