As I said before to the gentleman from Illinois . this law is designed to reach an evil that has attracted a great deal of popular attention. . Everybody recognizes that it is an evil extremely hard to reach. by the criminal statutes on account of the strictness with which criminl statutes are necessarily construed. It is rather difficult to draw a bill which will reach the real evil and yet which will not have the effect perhaps of infringing on the personal liberty of people not intended to be reached. The law is experimental. and if the gentleman. having been over this subject. as I know he has. in the preparation of the whiteslave immigration or interstate commerce law. has any amendment that will strengthen the bill. I am sure we would like to have It.
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