I will do that in a moment But one steamship line that carries passengers from Boston up to Canada. and that runs nightly. complains of this discrimination. Thqy say if a man could walk into the office in -Boston and buy a ticket. and they could ask him the questions. they -would not mind. but when seven or eight hundred people. starting from all parts of the United States. get on board the ship and the purser -has to go around in the night and ask everybody the :preliminary question whether they are aliens. and then ask them all these questions. it puts a burden on their traffic that is unfair in competition with the railways. They ask that until the provisions of section 12 of the immigrant act. relating to the outward manifest. is made applicable -to Canadian railroads. the provision as applied to passengers going by vessel :employed exclusively between the United States and Canada and the .Republic of Mexico shall not apply. and it seemed to the committee that their request was fair. and that the Government .ought not to interfere one way or -the other between competing carriers. and until we place the same burden on the railways we ought not to place it on the steamers. Now. I will answer the gentleman from New York. Until we made the .arrangement with Canada by which we put our own officials ip Montreal and Quebec. until we made the arrangement with the Canadian government by which they enforce the immigration laws in Canada. there was no protection at all. Any alien that came -into a -Canadian port could walk across the border anywhere. Now no alien can get into a -Canadian port that could not get into a similar American port.
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