Rejection of the Proposed Child Labor Constitutional Amendment by the State Legislature of Missouri Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. SenateSeries: Committee Papers of the Committee on the JudiciaryFile Unit: Petitions and Memorials, Resolutions of State Legislatures, and Related Documents, which were Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary from the 68th Congress HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 53RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY Jefferson City, Missouri January 13, 1925 Hon. Seldon P. Spencer, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. Dear Sir: I am instructed by the House of Representatives of the State of Missouri that the following resolutions have been adopted: WHEREAS: The Congress of the United States has sub- mitted to the several States for ratification and amendment to the Constitution of the United States, giving Congress the power to regulate the labor of all persons under eighteen years of age, and WHEREAS: This House, though opposed to the commer- cialization of childhood, believes that this should be prevented without undue infringment[sic] on the rights of the State or the individual rights of the people, and, WHEREAS: The regulation of child labor by Congress under proposed amendment would mean an additional army of bureaucrats, acting as snooping agents, invading our homes, therefore be it RESOLVED: That it is the sense of this House that this amendment should be rejected; that the Congress of the United States should offer an amendment that will give the Congress of the United States the un- questioned rights to forbid the entry of any product into the interstate or foreign commerce that has been produced through or by the commercialization of child labor, and be it further RESOLVED: That a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the Senators and Representatives in Congress from Missouri. Chief Clerk WM Funbette Per Assistant