Now as to the point of order o1 amendment No. 22. When this bill passed the House it provided that the Secretary of Labor. whenever lie saw fit. should order United States surgeons and matrons oil board vessels taking aliens away from this country or bringing them into this country. -The Senate felt that such a provision gave the Secretary of Labor power which he had no right to exercise outside the confines of the United States. At all events. the Senate struck out this clause which gave to the Secretary of Labor the power to put surgeons and mlatrons oil board immigrant ships. When the conferees got together they adopted a provision inder which the Secretary of Labor is authorized to enter into negotiations through the Department of State with foreign nations for the purpose of arranging matters so that inmigrlnt ships will. in case of necessity. carry American inspectors and matrons. When these agreements are made inspectors and matrons are to be detailed. and so forth and so on.
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