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{| the establishment, with the assistance of the State boards of health, of a national system of quarantine and maritime sanitation which will not impose unnecessary burdens on commerce.
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The committee recommend an appropriation of $1,000,000, to be expended in the discretion of the President, in coöperation with and in aid of the State authorities or otherwise, in the prevention of epidemic and contagious disease, with authority to the President to suspend all immigration and commerce, when necessary, until the danger of contagion and infection shall have passed.

Your committee further recommend that a system of international sanitation and regulation be established for the prevention of contagion and infection through immigration between the people of the several Republics of North and Central and South America, and the governments having control of Cuba and the West India Islands.

The interests of republican government and the community of commercial interests and the necessary frequency of intercourse between the people of these republics and Cuba and the islands of the Gulf, demand that the closest sympathy should exist between them, and in the opinion of your committee the rapidly increasing population of the United States, its vast resources, and its great productions and commerce require that we should be foremost in the initiation of measures and policies which shall promote the prosperity, progress, and advancement of the people of these contiguous countries.

The day is near at hand when 100,000,000 people will inhabit the United States, the most prosperous, free, and intelligent people of the world, cultivating peaceful relations with all nations, but powerful enough to demand justice, right, and protection for all the people of the Americas and the adjacent islands, and with the duty incumbent on them to initiate the policies which will best conduce to their just and fair commercial intercourse, to their mutual protection, and their progress in all the arts and sciences which promote the wellbeing of the great body of their people.

The committee recommend the passage of the following amendment to the sundry civil appropriation bill:

One million dollars, to be expended in the discretion of the President of the United States, for the prevention and suppression of epidemic disease through immigration or temporary residents.