Chairman. that steamship companies have a good deal to do with the difficulty. The statement of the gentleman from Tennessee is accurate except in so much as he says that they use a finetooth comb. The comb need not be too fine toothed. There is such a tremendous field for emigration that a fairly broadtooth comb will fill the vessels. As to conditions on board immigrant ships. I do not know that they are so bad as the gentleman thinks. Our navigation laws require 120 cubic feet for each passenger on such vessels. not taking into account the space taken by cargo. machinery. etc.
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