Page 732. volume 5. Hinds Precedents: After debate the Speaker said: "The Senate during the lost session passed an act entitled An act to amend an act entitled "An act to regulate the Immigration of aliens Into the United States" etc. " This Senate bill was broad in its provisions and substantially amended the immigration laws then in force. It was very general in its nature. as will be found upon examination. The bill came to the House. The House struck out all of the Senate bill after the enacting clause by way of amendment and passed a substitute therefor. So that the House entirely disagreed with every line. with every paragraph. with every section of the Senate billeverything except the enacting clauseand proposed a substitute Iherefor. and Ihis substitute on examination is found to be a complete codification and amendment of existing immigration laws. and incidentally the labor laws connected therewith. especially those dealing with contract labor. and with many other questions to which It Is not necessary to refer. * * * Again: The House substitute by way of amendment went to the Senate. The Senate disagreed to every line. paragraph. and section of the House provision. and with that disagreem~ent to the Senate provision. and with the House provision in effect a disagreement to the original Senate bill. the whole matter went to conference. That is. by this action there was committed to conference the whole subject of immigration. and. as connected therewith. the prohibition of immigration by way of contract labor in the fullest sense of the words. * * * The Chair has not had time to hunt up all the provisions of the immigration laws of the country. but the repealing clause. with the exception as proposed by the House and the disagreement of the Senate. sends this whole matter. in the opinion of the Chair. to the conferees. That decision was rendered by Mr. Speaker CANNON In the second session of the Fiftyninth Congress.
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