I have been urging this provision. ill sul)stance. for the past year. It should have been in the original 3 per cent act. Under the present immigration law there is a mandatory provision against a steamship company that brings people to the United States trying to land those who are inflicted with certain contagious diseases. The Secretary of Labor. when lie finds they atre thus affected. fines the steamship company $200 and also the amount of passage. Under another provision of the general immigration law the Secretary has some discretion. This provision here would have stopped the rush that occurred last June when something over 11.000 inadmissible aliens were brought to the United States by the steamship companies. and on the grotld of hunlanity and the difficulty in sending them back they were temporarily admitted and taken out of the quota for the following months. which were eventually taken out of the years quota. But notwithstanding they were warned and after the discussion by the House and tile Senate and the public as to what tle Secretary of Labor and his assistantsf would do. there is now admitted to the United States. which the steamship companies can not help knowing. some 2.590 immigrants that the company has been fined for and their passage money returned and the immligrants sent back at the expense of the company. They are trying to get in on tile ground that they came to America. and that therefore we shoul leave them here. This bill will. fine the steamship companies $200 for each inaduissible immigrant brought here and will is addition compel the steamship company to return to the iimigrant his passage money paid for coining over here. and in addition the stealnship company will have to return the immigrant to his home at tile companys own cost and expense. There is one slight exception. and possibly it can do no hurt and it may. do good. Aftei the steamship has left. say.
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