Mr. Speaker. the power of the steamship companies is apparently tremendous. They have consistently opposed this bill. and I say this. that the steamship companies are making money on bringing undesirable aliens to this country. The Dollar Line is making money by keeping a double crew of Chinese on every ship and paying them starvation wages. The reserve crew is carried to fill places caused by desertions. Naturally the company profits by a low rate of wages. The desertions of alien pseudo seamen are numerous and the records bear me out on this point. Foreign steamship companies are guilty of the same practice.
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