Chairman. I wish to say that the comthere is a law prohibiting his leaving there until he has rendered mittee gave careful attention to this subject. and while it is. of military service. If we have a consular inspection on the other course. possible and feasible to make examinations on the other side of the water. our consuls could not stay in that country and side. yet at the same time it would necessitate the sending yet assist or help that immigrant in leaving his country. could abroad of a large corps of doctors in the employ of the United not give him a certificate. no matter how well educated he was or States Government. as we naturally would not care to depend on how much we might want him here as a citizen. the consular foreign doctors. and it would entail unnecessary expense. It officer of the United States could not under the comity of nations seems far best to have the final examination on the shores of our sign a certificate allowing that man to emigrate to this country own country. because then we throw the onus or the responsiwhile standing on foreign soil in violation of the laws of that bility on the steamship lines to make at ports of embarkation. accountry. cording to our law. most careful and critical examination of all
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