I amso earnest about this bill that I dislike to say one word. and therefore I ask the attention of the House to the little I feel it necessary to say. For six years past the members of Congress from the State ofNew York have importuned Congress to pass soein remedial legislation on this subject. Ever since the Supreme Court of the United States decided that the State law imposing a tax upon immigrants. or rather upon the steamboat companies. was unconstitutional the duty was taken from the State of New York and forced upon Congress to provide some means for the care and protection of the immigrants as they are landed upon our shores. Since that early decision our immigration has increased enormously. to 70.000 a month. people from all countries. people sometimes indigent. some who are sick. the poor. the criminal. and they all have to bo cared for.
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