If the Senator from Louisiana be right. it seems to me he furnishes a very strong argument indeed for agreeing to section 7 at it stands. because if section 7 be adopted. then I think it will be quite clear that it is the purpose of the law to recognize in the existing quarantine authorities of the States the power to prescribe the rules and regulations for an immigration which is to continue to come in. and that the power to suspend immigration altogether. either temporarily or permanently as a health device. is intended to be lodged solely in the President of the United States. where it certainly should be lodged. In other words. if it be true that the quarantine power involves in it the power of total suspension of immigration. if we leave the bill without the proposed section 7. every petty quarantine officer. or certainly the Secretary of the Treasury. will have it. to which I do not agree. I think it is quite clear that this section should be added. declaring in terms whenever the health or protection of the country from infection requires the total suspension of immigration. that power is to belong to the President. and in lodging it by the seventh section in the President it would be taken away from the common quarantine officers. who otherwise might have it under the other section.
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