That is the history of this case. I desire to call attention to this bill and to ask every man in this House to read that portion of it which provides that any person afflicted with poverty. with blindness. or any of the ills or sicknesses to which humanity is subject. shall not be allowed to land in this country. but shall be sent back. And if they reach the other side of the ocean. and the law prevents them from being landed there. then these poor disabled members of the families of the immigrants. unless they are able to support themselves. will be compelled to float back and forth during their lifetime on that ocean in that purgatory between the hell of the Old World and the heaven of the Now with no relief in the world. You will find that in the first section of the bill. There is a little provision hero which provides that if a person is suffering from sickness and can be kept on shore in close custody. so. that he cannot escape to any other portion of Gods footstool. he may he allowed to go ashore for a few days. but at the first opportunity he must be sent back across the ocean to the place whence he came. [Here the hammer fell.] A more inhuman bill in some of its provisions never was presented for the consideration of men who have hearts and souls withi them.
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