That is not the proposition at all. We have already appropriated an adequate sum of money to remedy the situation in Baltimore. We gave $280.000 to take care of that little stream of immigration which comes trickling into that port. Two hundred and eighty thousand dollars is more in proportion than is given to the great ports of Philadelphia and Boston to take care of their immigrauts. Oh. conditions may be bad. gentlemen. They may be very bad when a man has only one meal a day. That may be reason for giving him two more meals a day. but when you have given him three meals a day that is no reason for giving him six. We have appropriated very handsomely to take care of that trivial immigration of 33.000 that comes into Baltimore every year. with half of the year none coming in at all to speak of. Three days a week the inspectors will sit in the administrative building and twiddle their thumbs and contemplate this magnificent building. For $2S0.000 we can give them leatherarmed chairs and as handsome a building as you would wish to see. I admlit that the accommodations for Immigrants in Baltimore is insufficient. We have appropriated liberally to cure that condition. To say that for the trivial immigration which enters that port this Government must spend the gigantic LI312 sum of $550.000 is like offering a bareheaded man two hats at the same time to keep his head warm.
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