It must be perfectly apparent to the Senator from New Hampshire as it isapparent to me. that there is quite a distinction between allowing an officer of this Government to inspect the proposed immigrant in a country from which he is to embark and putting officers on board a ship bringing them here. I am not advised as to why some Governments should allow the one and reject the. other. but I know. as the Senator knows. that they have that right. In the one case they had to give their consent to put our inspection officers at their ports. and wherever they agreed to it it was all well and good: If they had refused. we would have had no power to enforce it. They refused in this case. and our only recourse was to write such a modification of the section as would reach the object sought to be attained.
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