President. but when the bill allowed them $4 a mile they contended successfully that a mile meant a land mile and not a sea mile. and so a few thousand dollars a trip was added to that subsidy. In the last half of the last session of Congress we passed a law which provided that nobody could ship an express package of a small size. of certain dimensions. unless he shipped it by an American line of steamers. That much we are doing for the line. and now we are asked to legislate as to the steamers which. so far as the Atlantic trade is concerned. sail practically only from Southampton that every immigrant must come by that line or pay a penalty of $10. It will defeat its purpose. Mr.
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