Speech #660331168

I will say to the Senator from Massachusetts that I had not myself thought of discussing the bill at any length. but I should be very glad to hear a discussion of it. for I feel that the Senate is under a very grave misapprehension In reference to the matter. For example. many Senators believe that immigrants are coming here to the capacity of the shipping facilities. though when we consider that it costs an immigrant from Germany or Austri between six and seven thousand marks to buy his passage. a sum which. generally speaking. would compare with six or seven thousand dollars hereI do not mean to say that six or seven thousand marks are exactly equivalent to six or seven thousand dollars-