The proposition the Senator from Maine states Is a very different one. We can say to the world that they shall not bring immigrants to the United States. but we can not say that an officer of the United States shall go aboard a foreign vessel in a foreign port and examine her cargo and her passengers. That we can not do. and we would never permit such a thing for one moment in our own ports. Suppose. for instance. that Italy should say that no Italian who had immigrated here or Germany should say that no Gerwan who had immigrated here should be returned. that they would have an officer go on board an American ship at New York. and that that ship should not sail unless it submitted to an examination by a . German or an Italian officer. Of course we would not submit to that for one moment.
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