The bill. in section 1. endeavors to prohibit the importation into this country of goods made in whole or in part by convict. prison. or pauper labor. A good many inquiries have been made during the day as to what the term " pauper labor" means. What one gentleman says is pauper labor another gentleman says is not pauper labor. The committee therefore proposed to define pauper labor by a definition. Now. if It is within the power of the committee to consider that definition at all. It is within the power of the committee to make a definition of pauper labor. It is within the power of the committee to say that pauper labor shall be anything except the labor of millionaires. and it is equally within the power of the committee to say that pauper labor shall be as it is in factpauper labor. If the definition were not in thC bill. it is quite probable that a motion by way of amendment would not be in order to define it. and that we would be left to determine what "pauper" means. But here is the definition in the bill.
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