In all seriousness. I desire to call the attention of the House to other boards in New York City and in every port whose duty it is not to decide on commodities but whwse duty it is to decide on the rights of human beings. the right to enter this country under the immigration laws. and on whose decision the very lives of human beings depend. While we have a properly constituted court with judges learned in the law to pass upon the question of whether a commodity is a sardine or a fish. you permit a court of three inspectors getting $1.500 or $1.800 a year. overworked and without proper facilitiesand I know how hard the immigration boards work. because I served in that service three years--to pass upon mat. ters of human life. The immigration boards of special inquiry should be of the same character. standing. and learning as these customs courts we are now discussing.
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