But there ought to be the best possible quarantine in the great port of New York. The people of all the States of the American Union ought not to be held responsible for dereliction of duty in the State or city of New York in the management of its quarantine. If inefficient men or inefficient appliances are all that are found there for the reception of immigrants or the reception of other passengers coming across the water in the great steamship lines. then the people living in the States in the interior have a right to complain and have a right to demand that the general Government shall protect them against the inefficiency of a quarantine established at the port of New York simply to protect its own people. The Senator from New Hampshire has spoken about the appliances found in the harbor of New York. all of which he confesses are today under the control of the State authorities. He has spoken of Hoffman Island.
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