Chairman. I think the object of this joint resolution is understood by the House and requires no elaborate explanation. The resolution provides for the removal of the powder magazine from Ellis Island. in the harbor of New York. where it is now said to be endangering life and property. and also provides for the improvement of Ellis Island for immigration purposes. so as to enable the Treasury Department to establish an immigrant station there to. take the place of the one at Castle Garden. which is about to be discontinued. The joint resolution has passed the Senate unanimously. It was reported unanimously from the Committee on Naval Affairs of this House and it has been indorsed by action of the Joint Committee on Immigration. It is especially desirable that action shall be prompt in this case. not only on account of the danger from this large deposit of explosives in New York Harbor. a danger which is likely to be made greater by the increased quantities of explosives liable to be stored there from time to time owing to the increase of the Navy. but for other reasons. The latter section of the resolution is particularly important and exigent in view of the fact that the accommodations for the immigrant station at Castle Garden. New York. are under a lease which will expire. I think. on the 18th or 19th of this month.
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