Boston. Philadelphia. Baltimore.and New Orleans in regard to this matter of incoming immigrants. Now. the effect of the present situation is to turn the immigrants away from the lines plying directly to our own ports and to send them around by the Canadian lines. If that were all it would merely be a matter of competition between different lines of transportation. but the injustice of it is that men come over the border whom the best opinion of the United States. formulated in law. has decided should be excluded from this country. The commissioner of immigration at New York testified this very morning before the committee that men rejected at New York on account of loathsome and contagious diseases and others who were excluded under existing law were slipping around by Canada in increased numbers all the time. defeating in that way the very purpose of our legislation. The committee desires only to make the bill practical. not to make it burdensome on the railroads. The object is to secure some proper inspection. so that immigrants whom it is and has been the policy of this country for years to exclude shall not get in at one door when another door has been shut to them. That is the whole purpose of the bill.
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