It seems to me that they solve the difficulty which has been raised by the motion of the Senator from Wisconsin . In deference to the judgment of the Senator from Tennessee . the chairman of the committee. I was about to move that the authority of the President to suspend immigration should also be extended to all other classes of travel. but with the provision that the suspension might be made either wholly or partially. A discretion to do an act of this kind in a great emergency certainly ought to have the authority coupled with it to act either in whole or in part according to the exigency. It seems to me now that the amendments proposed by the Senator from Illinois exactly meet the case. I think the power now exists on the part of the Executive to keep out infectious property. but there is no harm in adopting the amendment in this form. and certainly there can be no objection. if the power is given to the President. in whole or in part. to exclude that which will bring cholera to these shores. to provide that he may. if the exigency demands. exclude all other passenger travel as well as immigration.
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