Why should the Treasury Department be charged with that duty. and is not that a duty which peculiarly pertains to the province of commerce and to our shipping industries? The same is true of the United States shipping commissioners. who have charge and look after the welfare of our sailors in their taking service on board of vessels. Now. take the Bureau of Immigration. It does not relate to any of the fiscal and financial affairs of the Government. but to the industrial welfare of the nation. It has a bearing upon the interests of the laboring man. It has a bearing upon our manufacturing industries and all the industries of the country. There ought to be under the department of commerce. if anything ought to be tnder that department. the question of passing upon and executing our immigration laws and examining immigrants who come to our shores.
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