I desire to say. while I was not present in the committee when the bill was under discussion. I believe. regardless of the question as to whether there ought to be restrictions or not. we ought to make the quarters for them at Philadelphia more comfortable than they are. because from the observation that I made and the examination that I had the opportunity of giving it. I retard the quarters as being altogether incommensurate with tlke influx of immigration and also lacking in the comforts of life that human beings ought to have and are entitled to. I want to answer the question of the distinguished gentleman from Missouri which he asked about the numbers that were going back. I might add that while they are going back they are taking with them good American money. and the number that have gone out in the last three or four months have carried more money from our shores than we borrowed from Europe in order to tide us over the crisis that we have just passed through.
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