Furu.seths idea that tile men ought not to be detained on the ship. but I reassert that he is overanxious and that there is nothing in the provisions to Which lie calls attention that could possibly be used to hold the men on ship in such a fashion. The last section that was put in was -inserted at the request of the district attorney of New York. who has found it impossible to convict the masters of ships that come in with double crews and go out with the scant requirements of the law. They are smugglers of immigrants. We have to be able to convict them for that smuggling. Unless we call have a presumption thllt they intended to smuggle from the fact that their outgoing manifest did not include the men who were on the incoming manifest we are never going to get any convictions.
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