Speaker. the vessels that this law Is intended to reach ply across the Pacific Ocean. The length of time of a roundtrip voyage of the vessels plying between home ports and between American ports and Cuban. Porto Rican. Canad"ian. Mexican. and other ports near the United States border is so short that the vessels are not materially inconvenienced by the existing law. Now. as a matter of fact. this law is intended to reach the few American vessels that still ply on the Pacific Ocean from Pacific coast ports to Asiatic ports. It freuently happens that the vessels have to anticipate their inspection by sixty to seventyfive days-