Speech #590161935

This question of sympathy for the South is one that has been affirmatively expressed by this body twice within the last ten days.. The Committee on Immigration have reported favorably and the Senate has passed two distinct measures providing for the establishment of immigrant stations at New Orleansand at Galveston. and making appro. priations out of the immigrant fund for the erection of buildings at those places. They have taken that action on the advice of the Bureau of Immigration. based upon this reason. that it will help to divert the stream of immigration coming to this country to those sections. In other words. it will help. as is suggested to me by the Senator from Maine . to divide the stream and send a portion of it where it seems to be so much needed. Now. I beg to assure the Senator that the. committee and the conferees are in full sympathy with all that h says about the needs of the South. They will be glad to cooperate in every possible way to divert a portion of the immigrants coming here to that section of the country. and I wish to repeat-