Mr. President. this amendment as I view it presents very much more than the mere question of the advisability as a matter of policy of the adoption of the House provision or the substitute offered by the committee. It presents the question as to whether this Government has the right to lay down the conditions upon which a ship plying to one of our ports may bring Immigrants to this country from abroad. The House apparently proceeded upon the assumption that there could be no question at all about the right of the Government of the United States to prescribe every detail of the conditions under which a ship might be entitled to enter our ports bringing immigrants to this country. I understand that the wisdom of the House provision apparently was not questioned nor controverted by the Senate comnmittee. if the power existed the propriety of the House provision seems to have been conceded. but the Senate committee apparently receded from that position upon a suggestion that it was hpossible for us to put officers of this Government aboard foreign ships.
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