Speech #520151352

No. sir. you are mistaken about that. Section tendent of immigration. it might be said. if the report is correct 8 is the one. That section provides that there shall be a fine of and the law has been properly enforced. that the immigrants $500 where the steamship companies do not require their agents now coming to this country are better than our own people. for to expose in their offices in the language of the country in which where in a population of 447.714 living in cities or rural districts the ticket is sold. a notice calling the attention of the intended are there not many more than 780 paupers. 13 insane. 4 idiots. emigrant to the laws of the United States in order that he may and 72 persons suffering from loathsome or contagious diseases? inform himself before he buys his ticket. before he sells his lit- Actual observation at the port of New York convinced the tle property. before he embarks on the journey. axd may come to Committee on Immigration that radical measures must be rethis country understalidingly. sorted to in order to secure proper inspection. that whilst there Then when he arrives at the seaboard in the foreign country may not have been any willful negligence or dereliction of duty he is again inspected. and when he arrives here he is inspected on the part of the commissioner of immigration at the port of again by our authorities. so that with three inspections instead New York and his assistants in the execution of the laws relatof one we hope.to sift the desirable from the undesirable people. ing to immigration. there have been many undesirable immiand to get a better class of immigrants. grants permitted to land. who. under a reasonable and proper