Has the gentleman ever taken into consideration the question of the expense to the railroad or transportation companies to have experts investigate. for instance. as to the sanity of passengers on all railroad trains? I can illustrate it no better than by saying that in my section of the country a train may have two or three hundred immigrants coming into this country from Mexico. Now. if this bill is to apply to the railroad companies. they would necessarily have to detain that train when it got to the border line for a sufficient length of time to enable an expert to examine all the passengers to determine whether or not any of them were insane and deportable. Now. this law could properly apply to the steamship companies. because they have plenty of time in which to ascertain whether their passengers are of the nature or character that Is describetl in this bill. whereas the railroad companies coming from Mexico or from Canada could not take the time to do that because they are making two or three daily passages to this country. I would suggest to the gentleman from Alabama [Mr.
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