Speech #670387522

In fact. the bill as it passed the House simply provides for carrying the mail at pound rates and added nothing to the marine fund. Then. the Senator from Tennessee included $8.000.000 for the carrying of inmigrants to this country. Surely the Senator knows that the Government does not pay the traveling expenses of immigrants to this country. All the bill does is to require 3.322 onehalf of the immigrants to come In our ships. but they must pay their own way as heretofore. Then. to show more clearly the fallacy of the Senators contention. so often made in the press as well as here. as to the tax on tile people under the bill. I call attention to the fact that the Commerce Committee prepared an amendment limiting the amount that may be expended from the marine fund in any one year to not atore than $30.000.000 a year. instead of $77.000.000.