It is due to myself and to the great subject that I say at the outset that I come here entirely without any preparation to speak upon this bill. that I am very sorry to speak prior to the gentleman from Massachusetts. [Mr. RIcE . and that the few words I have to say will have no other authority than attaches tothem as having occurred to me at the moment of utterance. In the first place I will say I happened last October to be in coinpany with some gentlemen who were estimating the extent in thefuture of the currents of emigration to these American States. and they. to my surprise. concluded that there would be at least a population of a new city of a thousand inhabitants imported into the United States for everydayof the year 1880. I understand that during the first three months of the year. January.
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