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 8 per cent quota law "this traffic would give the transporting companies a gross income of $17.600.000 per year. of which onehalf. or $8.800.000 should come to American owners." He further stated that onehalf of this sum would be net profit. There are other Indirect aids carried in the bill. which I shall not now discuss. However.
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