The sea service bureau is carrying out the very function which the gentleman from Tennessee wrote into the law when he required that there should be an increased personnel of American citizens working upon the ships. The question was asked earlier in the debate today as to the percentage of aliens that are now employed on these ships. and the answer was made that the percentage is about 12 per cent. in other words. that the American citizens are 88.9 per cent. I am advised that this percentage includes only native and naturalized American seamen. and that the men who have taken out their first papers are not included in this percentage of 88.9.
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