Then the gentleman can correct me when I am through. Wherever the immigrants might be going. whether by railroad or canal. up the Hudson or down the coast. wherever they might be going from New York. as a eneral rule they were hurried to the cars. if they were able to travoq. and sent to other States. It made no difference to these New York gentlemen whether they had anything when they got there. because they knew that in all of our Northwestern States there was food enough. and that we would give it to them until they could earn enough for themselves. Millions of men were driven to the West in that way. But there is this thing to which the gentlemen can reply. There have been built upon Wards Island. in the harbor of New Nork. magnificent structures by the immigrant commissioners. costing between $2.500.000 and $3.500.000. Now those would be nice places for the United States to have for these immigrants. and I had hoped that in this bill there might be some provision that the money paid by the immigrants and put into these buildings might be under the control of the United States Government.
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