I ask the gentleman to wait until I get through with my statement. Here is what is bound to happen in the Baltimore immigration station: Officials are busy three days a week and for three days a week they have little to do. For pretty nearly half the year work is mighty slack down there in Baltimore. That. at all events. is my recollection of the situation down there. I do not say that they do not now and then have an enormous crowd come in there. The fact that the present immigrant station is on the Baltimore & Ohio tracks has nothing whatever to do with the question. Either the immigrants destination is Baltimore or else he comes with a through ticket to his destination. wherever it may be. It happened that originally the station was placed on Baltimore & Ohio land. Now. obviously. they ought to have new buildings. but $280.000 for buildings to take care of an immigration of only 33.000 a year is amply sufficient. I think that it is more in proportion than Boston has ever had and more in proportion than Philadelphia has ever had. What excuse does the committee give for this increase to $550.000?
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