Mr. Speaker. what I would like to know with reference to this bill is this: As I read the bill it is proposed to construct for $43.000 a building 130 feet long by 37 feet wide. with a wing 30 feet by 40 feet. for the accommodation of 500 immigrants who may be unfortunately quarantined at that port. I thought possibly the gentleman from Maine or the gentleman from Georgia would be able to give us some information as to the kind of building it is proposed to construct with the $43.000 which has now been appropriated and what addition it is proposed to make with the additional amouIt. I observe that the department heads speak of the necessity for accommodations for a good many of these immigrants. sometimes as high as 1.600 having been landed there or being on vessels that have stopped there on which there were cases of quarantinable diseases. This additional appropriation does not furnish any additional pace. as I understand. but it is giving some additional money for what they say is to make this a near fireproof building. Now.
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