The old Governor Cobb used to run every day to Habana from Key West. Sometimes its crew. like other crews. would go on a spree. and at the moment of sailing the officers of the boat would find they were 6 or 8 or 10 men short. They could not wait to investigate the naturalization proceedings which might have taken place at some fardistant city. They had to take the statement of the men who applied for enlistment. They had to secure a crew in a hurry in order to sail on time. If they enlisted a man in Key West an hour before the vessel sailed and brought the same man back the next day. they would not have made the situation in the United States one bit worse than it was before. If. on the other hand. they are going to enlist their crews in Habana and bring inadmissible persons in from Habana. then it is quite right that they should pay the expense of sending them away again. But if they enlist a man in Key West. while the individual himself remains deportable. it is not right to make the vessel pay the cost of deporting him.
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