I have sometimes thought we could learn a lesson from some of the countries of the Old World in the way of encouraging American shipping and increasing our merchant marine. But I shall not enter into a discussion of that question at this time. I submit again that the amendment is entirely out of harmony with the spirit of the bill. that it can not increase our merchant marine. that it can not materially retard immigration. that it can only be a tax and burden upon the best and most desirable of our immigrants. and that for these reasons it ought not to be injected into this wholesome measure.
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