At the Senate hearings to which I have referred. Inspector Terranova urged that the customs service abandon its present system of spotchecking the luggage of passengers arriving from abroad and that inspectors be directed to inspect every piece of baggage. He also recommended the formation of a port patrol and a border patrol to combat smuggling. The customs patrol along the borders was abolished some time ago as an economy measure. and the seaport patrol has been reduced to an impotent force. Recently at the port of New York. according to press reports. merchant seamen of a foreign freighter dccked at a Brooklyn pier. walked ashore with qiantities of opium concealed on their persons. and were apprehended by the New York police far from the wharf.
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