The contractlabor law is very drastic now. The law as It was passed in 1907and that was the law for some years. I believeprovides as follows: That the following classes of aliens shall be excluded from admission into the United States: * * * persons hereinafter called contract laborers who have been induced or solicited to migrate to this country by offers or promises of employment or in consequence of agreements. oral. written. or piinted. expressed or Implied. to perform labor in this country of any kind. skilled or unskilled. I believe that provision Is about as drastic as it ought to be. I believe the language used In the proposed amendment goes even further than the Senator from Missouri has stated. I believe it would be possible to construe it so that If some friend of a prospective immigrant should go to a bank and ask for a loan to assist his friend to purchase a ticket. that could be construed to be a violation of law.. I think It is wholly unnecessary to embody In the law a provision so drastic as this one is. and I ask for a roll call on the amendment because I shall vote against it.
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