Chairman. there can be no question raised that this amendment can not be enforced. because I have added to the amendment offered yesterday by the gentleman from Illinois the enforcing provisions. asi found on page 11 in section 7. and if those provisions are good and enforcible there. they are good here. Now. what is the situation? I was the subcommittee of the Immigration Commission that was given charge of investigating the conditions on board steamships. and I sent women inspectors into the steerages of the various ships. I sent Italians on Italian lines. I sent people who spoke other languages on the language ships. I sent seamen and Englishspeaking women on the English) ships. There was. one particular line running. into Baltimore. concerning which I chose a woman from Baltimore and because I had my own ideas of what happened to women in the steerages. I chose a big. broadshouldered woman who I thought could take care of herselfI am going to speak very plainlyand she- went clear back into Austria and came into this country as an immigrant over the railroads and steamships. and after she got back into the port of Baltimore she made a report which was. printed as a part of Senate Document No. 206. Sixtyfirst Congress second session. There were no matrons on that ship. there. was no care taken of or given to the women. and this is what that woman found: The manner in which sailors. stewards. firemen. and others mingled with the women passengers was thoroughly revolting.
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