Mr. HOWE: Yes; make him labor. It means that or it means nothing. I am just as much in favor of encouraging immigration as the Senfrom NewYork, [Mr. MORGAN] but it is only one kind of immigration that I want. All men throughout the world who have the means to pay for coming here are at liberty to come, good, bad or indifferent. I would rather only the good men would come and the bad and indifferent men would stay at home; but the purpose of this act is to enable contracts to be made with those who cannot pay their passage, and to make it safe for those engaged in the business of importation to advance the money necessary to pay their passage over here, and to give them a lien on the labor of the man himself to repay the sum loaned. Now, I say, for one, I do not want men imported into this country who have not integrity enough and character enough to stand security for the money advanced to bring them over. It is not for the benefit of this country, it does not subserve any interest ofit, to import that kind of labor. But now look att leact of 1864 and see what it is worth. It creates a Commissioner of immigration, with 3 clerks of such grade as the SecyState shall prescribe. That is the 1st section. What is the business of this Commissioner of Immigration and of his 3 clerks? Only to prescribe the forms for making ‘contracts in EFIM‘Oe. That is all he has to do in the world; and you have a commissioner of Immigration, at a salary of $2,300, with 3 clerks of such grade as the SecyState shall direct, with no other business in the world than just to prescribe rules for making contracts in Europe. He never makes any contracts; his office is to be here in the State Dept; he is just as eflicient an aid of immigration, it seems to me, as would be a superintendent of a NewEngland manufacturing company who should have his office located in the basement of this Capitol. He cannot do a tiling to aid immigration; he is the merest show in the world. There is a superintendent of immigration also provided for in this act to reside in NewYork. What is his business? His business is to meet the immigrant when he arrives in NewYork and to make contracts with railroad companies for his passage to the interior, if the man has the money to pay his passage.