Chairman. I should like to be stopped at the conclusion of three minutes. Unless this amendment is adopted. it will simply. under this $8 head tax. divert the traffic coming from Great Britain so that it will go via the Allan Line steamers and the Canadian Pacific. because it gives them a differential of $16 in favor of the Canadian steamship companies as against the American steamship companies on every man and his wife coming to this country. In other portions of the bill we legislate so as to bring business to our own ports of Boston. New York. New Orleans. Galveston. and so forth. But if a man who wants to come from Great Britain to Chicago. or any place like that. finds that he does not have to pay any head tax if lie comes over the Canadian line. he is very apt to save $8 or if lie comes with his wife $16 by coming via Canada. I am in favor of American industry and against diverting business to Canadian ports.
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