Mr. WILLIAMS. To guard against any inference of that kind, it “ expressly provides that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize any contract contravening the constitution of the U.S or creating in any way the relation of slavery or servitude.” But suppose an emigrant in Europe makes this contract; he comes to the U.S.; he goes to the State of Ohio; under this law the contract which he has made may be enforced in the State of Ohio he has pledged his wages for the payment of the money expended by the ship owner to bring him to this country. If he refuses to pay, a suit may be brought, us I understand this law, by which his employer may he garnisheed that is, the wages due the laborer may be stopped in the hands of the employer, and the employer, instead of paying the wages to the immigrant, may be required by an order of the court, as upon a garnishee process, to pay the money to the man who has transported him to the U.S. That is all that that portion of the law means; and it does not in any way affect the liberty of the man but simply relates to his wages; and it further provides that if it be so stipulated in the contract and this contract he recorded in that State or county to which the immigrant removes, then that contract becomes a lien upon any land which that immigrant may ur chase, and it operates like a judgment recorded; it becomes a lien upon the land and it may be collected by the Bag of that land in case payment is refused. That is all there is of the 1st provision, and I say instead of being injurious to the poor people of Europe it is an advantage to them, ecnnse it secures to those Persons who advance money to bring them to the U.S. a mode of recovering back that money; and so persons are willing to advance their money for such purposes; and then it provides that when they arrive here this Commissioner of Immigration upon their arrival shall give them such information as they need as to those places in the U.S. where such labor is required, and it provides that this Commissioner of Immigration shall provide them with transportation and facilitate their removal to such portions of the U.S. as they may desire to go to. It seems to me that that provision is particularly desirable and useful, because when these people come here they are ignorant, they know nothing about the country they are unable to speak our language, an they fall a prey to the sharks and others who are unprincipled and take advantage of their ignorance, and this law is intended to provide a person upon whom they can rely, who will give them the necessary intbrmntion; and so far as I understand the operation of this law, in all respects it has been beneficial; it has assisted these poor people to come to this country; it has protected them after their arrival here; it has assisted them to travel from the large cities upon our eastern sea board to the western States, where their labor is needed and where they can become useful and prosperous citizens; and there is no objection that can conceive of to the law. The ghost that the Gentfrom Maine conjures up here, that there is something like slavery about it, seems to me to be a figment of his own imagination. There is nothing in the law that war raxuts any such supposition, and I hope the law Wlll not be repealed.