While I was a member of the Committee on Public Buildings and Groun.Is I was also a member of the subcommittee that went to Baltimore to examine the conditions there. I confess that I was not only surprised but wounded in my national pride at the conditions that we found there to exist. There is no immigration station at Baltimore except a shed that has been erected by a railroad company. the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co.. which grants the use of it to the United States. There is no immigration station of the United States or any place that is subject to its jurisdiction or control except for the use that is given by the railroad company. of course primarily for its own benefit. It is a condition that ought not to exist anywhere. This matter ought not to be considered in the light of a favor to the city of Baltimore. It ought to be considered in act of necessity on the part of the Goverument of the United States to maintain its dignified selfrespect in the treatment of its own offices. I sincerely hope that this Congress will not have any idea that it is conferring. or is to be considered as conferring. a favor on Baltimore when the3 consider whether or not they ought to pass this bill. We ought to have. we must have. a station there for this Immigration Service. National dignity and pride. as well as tile ordinary national requirements. should cause us to do this. and I hope there will be no hesitancy on the part of Congress in that respect. Why it has been so long delayed I have never been able to understand.
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