The general purpose of that section is to direct that persons arriving here in violation of the prohibition shall be sent back. That is the order of the section. "that all persons included in the prohibition in this act. upon arrival. shall be sent back to the nations to which they belong and from whence they came." Then it goes on to provide that "the Secretary of the Treasury may designate the State board of charities of any State." and certain other persons "to execute the provisions of this.section without compensation." Now. it seems to me that the exact thing which it is desired that the State board of charities or the other persons referred to shall do ought to be specifically stated. I presume it was not the intention of the Committee on Labor to report a bill providing that the State board of charities. or the other persons indicated. should send these people back without compensation. for in the latter clause of the same section it is provided that "the expense of such return of the aforesaid persons not permitted to laud shall be borne by the owners of the vessels in which they came."1 Yet there is the distinct direction in the first part of the section that the State board of charities or other persons shall send these immigrants back without compensation. and that is all there is in the bill to be executed. Now. it seems to me that a very brief amendment should be inserted at the point I have indicated.
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