In one word I will answer that. The com. mittee gave great thought to that question. We had 25 or 30 witnesses before us some four years ago and went into It In .every particular. and the committee also looked into the law. and I am convinced absolutely that with the literacy test and the $8 headtax provision. and under the law. regarding contract labor. I will say to the distinguished gentleman from Illinois I believe. as I believe I am standing here. that if the contract labor law was enforced today there would not be a thousandMexicans whq would cross the border. That is the. reason we did not pass on that.
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