I take note of the question made by the gentleman from Georgia. I should be better able to answer it had I been prostent at the meeting of the committee when this bill was discussed. but by the politeness of the chairman of the committee the House is already aware I was not present at that meeting. I have. however. as nearly as I can calculate in the matter. discovered that the city of New York has made about that amount of money out of the headmoney heretofore exacted from immigrants to protect immigration. which the Supreme Court has decided unconstitutional. That was two dollars and a half a head. Last year. asmy friend from New York has said. 138 000 immigrafts entered the port of New York. Multiply 138.000 by 4. and you get fully $250.000. and I fancy whoever drew this bill wanted to make up about that amount -out of the National Treasury. which heretofore they got out of the pockets of the immigrants. That is how the sum happened to be fixed.
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