But there is no clause of that kind that is not -in the present law. Let us understand this matter. Under the present law when a vessel arrives in an American port the immigration officers board it. they are authorized to make an inspection. they determine who may land and who may not land. they can send a portion or all .of the immigrants into quarantine. they can detain the vessel in quarantine. all of those things can be done. Now. the provision that is brought in here by the Senate committee does not go. as far as I have been able to observe. one hairs breadth beyond the present law. so that the question that Is now presented to the Senate is Whether we shall retain the present law or whether we shall enact the House provision. which goes -much further than the present law. If I may have the indulgence of the Senate for a moment.
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