Porto Rico. the Virgin Islands. Haiti. and so forth. One of the provisions of the bill provides that 50 per cent of the immigrants to this country shall be transported in American vessels. Mr. Thomas H. Rossbottom. a representative of the Shipping Board. who testified at the hearings. estimated that under the present 3 per cent quota law " this traffic would give the transporting companies a gross income of $17.600.000 expenditures of future appropriations. and then when the bills per year. of which onehalf. or $8.800.000. should come to Ameri- are under consideration in the Congress there is more inquiry can owners." He further stated that onehalf of this sum would and discussion. Consequently. the Shipping Board is anxious be net profit. to avoid all such embarrassment. and is unwilling to come to There are various other indirett aids carried in the bill. Congress annually for necessary appropriations as all other which I shall not now discuss. departments are required to do.
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