Mr. Chairman. that three years ago those who came to our shores by way of our city were obliged to be crowded into a building controlled by the railroad and steamship companies. Detained immigrants are still kept in a building of that kind. both those awaiting examination and those awaiting deportation. as well as those who are sick. And those who are now landed and detained at our port must be carried through the streets of the city in wagons and omnibusescarried through a residential section. a thickly populated section. where disease. If they should be infected. would spread like wildfire. They. are taken away beyond the wharf line. through thb very heart of the old city. to be there deposited in a building which was once a sort of museum. and they are required to remain there until they are examined by the officials and released or sent back. I can not conceive of anything more urgent than the relief we ask. and I trust that the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations. who represents a district where the greatest immigration to this country concentrates. will yield in this particular. and that he and his colleagues upon the committee will permit this amendment to go through. if for no other purpose than that of serving humanity.
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