We have in the Southern States movements on the part of large railroad systems to promote immigration. They do it for the purpose of developing the country through which their lines run. with the idea that in such development there will be increased business for their railroads. For in728.2 stance. I know that the Southern Railroad and several other railroads have distinctively immigration bureaus. with their agents. They operate in the Northern States now. and to a large extent in the Northwestern States. which bring colonies of immigrants to settle up different localities. They have several considerable towns in my own State. one of them between five and ten thousand inhabitants. made up almost exclusively of immigrants who have been brought in through the agency of these railroad immigration bureaus. It is more than probable that a more practical result is to be anticipated from an enterprise of that kind than there is from State action. and it is with a view of that that I suggest to the Senator that possiblypretermitting for the present the question as to the elimination of the first part of the provision and limiting the consideration to the part which the Senator now approvesI want to suggest the propriety and advisability of enlarging that authority. so as not only to embrace agents of the States. but agents of immigration societies. whether they be the agents of corporations or of individual localities.
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