I believe." (Ilearinigs. p. 709.) Thle local Jails to which the prisonlers who were held to await a note formal examination were so densely crowded that the sanitary conditionls became so insuffertible as to induce the city council to spread upon its records a solemiu protest amid demandl that thme prisontors be removed. asserting that tieit furthter dletentioti therein was a nenace to the health of the city. The resoiutiont is set out iii tihe roeord. (Hearings. p. 698.) Thus prompted. the prisoners were removed to the Fort Wayne Barracks outside the city or in its suburbs. Of the 1.000 or more men arrested in Detroit 128 only were ordered deported on the final hearing before the Department of Labor. Just how many were detained for the more formal inquiry does not appear. The "plight of those eventually held. and particularly of their families. aroused the sympathetic interests of the humane people of the city in which they had taken up their residence. for when the order was made. either because ships were not available for their transport or it was impossible because of conditions there prevailing to deliver them in the countries from which they came. they continued in confinement at the Fort Wayne Barracks.
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