I will give an illustration of what I mean. and Senators may draw their own inferences. the Senator from Colorado or anybody else. There is a bill now upon the statute book. perhaps it came from the Committee on Commerce. which provides very carefully for the ventilation of steamships. It states exactly what the ventilating apparatus shall be. and how it shall be constructed. and then there follows this clause: In any steamship the ventilating apparatus provided. or any method of ventilation adopted thereon. which has been approved by the proper emigration officers at the port or place from which said vessel was cleared. shall be deemed a compliance with the forgoing provisions. Now. will the Senator tell me why we should put any such provision as that into our law. why we should elaborate rules for the ventilation of steamships and write them down in our statute book to be enforced by our officials. and then put into the law a comfortable clause that. notwithstanding all the provisions we have made. if the immigration officers of the country abroad approve of such ventilating apparatus as the foreign companies furnish. then all the provisions which we have enacted may go for nothing?
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