I do not pretend toknow anything about the details of this business. but it struck me that my friend from Iowa was taking ground not tenable. because if this Board of Health and its operations are to be effectual in excludingthe ingress of contagious disease they must not wait for the necessary buildings until the contagious disease is upon them. They axe not to have buildings up and down the coast at every point. but the points which the Senator from Iowa cites arepoints where a large immigration comes in. HamptonRoads is one of the largest harbors on the coast. if not the very largest. Ship Island. outside of New Orleans. is an important point. These arothe very places where. if epidemics are to come. they must be met. and the provision must be made in advance. because it is altogether too late to give an appropriationto these persons and say. "If the disease comes in. you may have this money to keep it out after it is inside."
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