Without objection. it is so ordered. The statement referred to is as follows: As amendment No. 15 was discussed at some length on December 10 ind again on December 15 before It was placed in the act by the Senate. and as the vote to adopt it was 45 yeas and 6 nays a brief explanation to the Senate as to why the House conferees thought the Senate should recede thereon and as to why the Senate conferees agreed to so recommend seems to be In order. It will be recalled that the words " mental or manual " were inserted in the definition of contract laborer In response to a recommendation from the Commissioner General of Immigration and the Secretary of Labor. their object evidently being to make the language of the law perfectly clear and have the new statute fully accomplish the purpose of the existing one. It is understood that the departments difficulty in this regard arose from the handing down over four years ago by the Attorney General of an opinion restricting the operation of the statute to laborers engaged in occupations in which manual elements predominate over mental. The conference committees recommendation is not due to concurrence in the construction of the law which limits its operation to manual laborers. but is due solely to the belief that the definition of the term " contract laborer " as it stands in the existing law and is repeated in the pending measure is clearly to the contrary effect without the insertion of the words " mental or manual."
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