President. I am entirely in favor of the principle of discriminating duties in favor of American shipping. I. do not know that I am opposed to a head tax on immigrants. But I think that this amendment complicates the bill with a question wbnich ought to be kept entirely apart from the question of immigration. A great many Senators who are in favor of the pending bill as it stands would be opposed. and properly opposed. very probably. .to the introduction into it of provisions which bring up totally differentprinciples of legislation upon which parties are divided. As it now stands it is not in any sense a party measure.
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