I asked a question of the chairman of the committee with reference to section 11. Personally I am cppsed to all legisiltio. of t..is chacter. because I believe It to be undemocratic and unfair. But if there was any -one feature of this bill that ought to have received -the most careful consideration It is that which provides for the medical inspection Of these immigrants. The very fact that this section was stricken out shows the powerful Influence exerted in the premises by the combined agencies of the shipping trust. That section was objected to *by the shipping trust. and everybody knows that the shipping trust has been more.directly responsible for the objectionable conditions prevailing in matters of Immigration than. any other particular -influence. . The greatest complaints at all of the different ports relate to the time allotted to medical inspection. which is woefully insufficient. And if there is any one thing that should be most carefully safeguarded It is the medical inspection of those people. Poor but refined immigrants from Poland. Italy. and other .parts of Europe. through the inefficient system of Inspection that now obtains in the administration of the Immigration laws of the. country. have been subjected to great annoyance and irritation on their arrival here. All this could be effectively avoided if section 11 of this bill were permitted to become law. No better people. no more useful citizens can be found anywhere In these United States than the Italians and Poles who have cast their lot in the great city of Chicago and contributed so much that .is good and meritorious to its civic virtue and industrial enterprise.
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