Section 3 of the bill contains a list of the excluded classes. Section 9 treats wholly upon the question of the examination of those making application for admission into the United States. I should like to call attention to a fact which has been overlooked to some extent. that this relates to the examination which is to be mtide on tile other side of the water by the steamship companies before bringing immigrants to this country. Section ) reads: That it shall be unlawful for any person. including any transportation company other than railway lines entering the United States from foreign contiguous territory. or the owner. master. agent. or consignee of any vessel. to bring to the United States either from a foreign country or any insular possession of the United States any alien afflicted with idiocy. insanity. Imbecility. feeblemindedness. epilepsy. constitultional psychopathic inferiority. chronic alcholism. tuberculosis in any form. or a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease. and if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary of Lahor that any alien so Ibrought to the United States was aillieted with any of the said diseases or disabilities at the time of foreign embarkationThis is the clause to which I wish to call attentionand that the existence of such disease or disability might have been detected by means of a competent nedical examination at such lime. such person or transportation company. or the master. agent. owner. or consignee of any such vessel. shall pay to the collector of customs of the customs district in which the port of arrival is located the sum of $200 for each and every violation of the provisions of this section.
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