Mr. SPRAGUE. I concur with the views expressed by the Senfrom California, the Senfrom Wisconsin, and the Senfrom Maine. I have yet to see the necessity for a bill of this kind. The Government of the U.S. have guarantied through this law and by their commissioner a company in NewYork to do the business of importing labor. It has under the auspices of the Government of the U.S. solicited from the capitalists and manufacturers and agriculturists of the country opportunities to bring to this country laboring people. It has obtained from them in advance moneys for that purpose. My constituents have advanced money, believing that they were advancing that money under the security and patronage of the Government of the U.S., as it was so stated to them; but many of them up to this time, to my certain knowledge, have never received back the money that they advanced nor the labor that that money was to produce. Beyond all contradiction, the Government of the U.S. are a party to fraud upon the people through this arrangement. Sir, those who employ labor have not been able to avail themselves of this law. Prior to its enactment labor came free and without hinderance and without disadvantage. There were occasionally those who came who were not able or who were not willing to refund the money that was advanced, but it was so in very few cases; and I know that where there were any extraordinary restrictions placed upon labor any peculiar contract made with them for the refunding of the passage money and other expenses it was the exception that in those cases payments were not made, whereas in the cases where a free introduction of labor was allowed the laborer himself felt in duty bound or felt free or was treated in such a way that he did pay. Well now, sir, under this law in my judgment, the money advanced by the capitalist, if on so call him, will not be paid back to him if the labor does not come; and the laborer if restricted by the law will never pay back a cent, and the consequence will be that your law will be a mere trap set by parties who are desirous to obtain% ages upon labor that may be imported.