Mr. Chairman. in response to the question of tile gentleman from Illinois . just propounded to me. about what we mean by the part of tle ilendment which provides that they shall not remove labor from any State in violation of its laws. I will state that you will find in a great many of the States that labor solicitors are designated as " immigrant agents." and they are prohibited from operating in a great many of tile States in certain seasons of the year when labor is engaged. and when it would break contracts to take it away. and they are prohibited from operating at all without any licenses almost all the year in a good many respects. We do not want to put the Secretary of Agriculture and his agents in the position of violating those laws. and therefore that provision should be inserted here. Then as to the other. the provision is that laborers shall not be removed when engaged in agriculture and needed in cultivating and harvesting tile crops where manifestly it would be a disastrous and foolish thing after crops were begun and had partly been made and completed. but not gathered. to remove the labor away from there. because there is a scarcity of farm labor everywhere. and in tle South in particular.
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