Session #57 · 1901–03

Speech #570092772

Certainly not. but nevertheless the bill says: That there shall be levied. collected. and paid a duty of $3 for each and every passenger. That is what it says. It does not say "alien immigrant" or immigrant of any description. but a "passenger." I insist that my interpretation of the bill is the correct interpretation. and I want to give an illustration. A railroad company under that bill would be taxed $3 every time a tourist crossed the line into the United States. and as a glaring instance of the injustice that would result let me say that if a party of tourists wished to go from Toronto. in Canada. to Niagara Falls. N.
Keywords matched
immigrant

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
HENRY LODGE
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
MA
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
570092772
Paragraph
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