Mr. President. this provision. which Is In the existing law. if my memory serves me right. goes back some distance In our legislation. It was put in owing to the extreme difficulty in getting evidence of violations of the contractlaborlaw. I was on a committee appointed by the Senate to Investigate the subject of contract labor In 1893. I think. Senator David B. Hill. of New York. was chairman of the committee. We held an investigation in the city of New York. The committee obtained an entire conviction in their own minds that the contractlabor law was being violated In many ways. but they were met at every step. when .they made inquiries of the law officers of the Government. with the statement that it was extremely difficult to get the necessary evidence. or to get Information which would enable them to enforce the law.
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