Mr. President. I am very glad that the Senator from California and others who advocate the pending amendment have abandoned the notion that it is in the slightest degree restrictive of immigration or intended in the slightest degree to affect favorably the immigration to this country. The open purpose of the amendment is to further subsidize certain steamship lines. We.have had a good deal of experience in the Senate with these American lines of steamers. We pay today $14.400 for every trip the ships make from New York to Southampton. We pay them $4 for every sea mile they travel as a bonus or carrying the American flag upon a line which has two ships. and two ships only. which were built in this country.
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