Whire I am not going just now to oppose that provision for giving control to our courts in regard to vessels of foreign countries. it is well for us to recollect that two can work along that line. If we violate the international rule. how do we know what some other country may do? If we pass a statute that is contrary to the law of Germany and the custom in vogue there and provide that onehalf of the wages must be paid a German seaman in an American port. although he is engaged for a trip from Hamburg or Bremen to New York and return and is to receive his wages when he returns. what is to hinder them from passing a law that any naturalized German who has not performed military service in the German Army can be taken off one of our boats and subjected to the performance of that service? What is to prevent them from imposing any regulation on our shipping in their ports which is onerous or even disastrous to it? I think we had better hesitate a good while before we adopt such a provision as that. especially without giving the years notice that is prescribed by treaty.
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