Then he appears before the House committee and says to them and to others. "Let in this seasonal Mexican labor." and. of course. that simply increases the surplus cotton and brings down the price. We are spending half a billion dollars to take care of the surplus crops. and if we take the advice of Mr. Legge we increase the number of immigrants into the country and that will increase the surplus. On the one side we are trying to get rid of the surplus ] and on the other he wants this Mexican labor. which cultivates more cotton. Increases our surplus. and that reduces the price.
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