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...found that the companies could be fined $200 per immigrant plus the amount of their passage money (usually about $100), both sums to be given over to the immigrants. With 1,800 immigrants involved, the fines aggregated over half a million dollars. The lines, of course, protested, to no avail. Since the transgressing ships could not get clearance papers unless a large deposit were paid against the forthcoming fines, the lines had little choice. The Baltic-American line was the first to pay, depositing under protest $100,000 in order that the Estonia (which arrived 15 seconds early) might sail...
...were exhausted, about 1,800 of these newcomers must be deported- some of them because they were only 15 seconds too early for the September quota. There was some criticism of this action on a "technicality"; and the captains of the vessels protested the official timekeeping, but to no avail. The immigration authorities held that some deadline must be observed in the execution of the law, the midnight rule must be strictly adhered to. The effect may be to decrease the haste of steamer captains in trying to cross the imaginary line, and thereby diminish the danger of collision...
...lack of good roads, the need of markets for agricultural products. The first question might be solved by the creation of a national fish preserve, but this would tend to create a monopoly among the canners already installed. On the question of roads, Secretary Wallace suggested that the Alaskans avail themselves of some $4,000,000 which they might have under the Federal Aid Road Act, but this would involve a conflict with the War Department, which likes to keep control of Alaskan road building. As for markets, it seems that Alaska is too remote ever to find a satisfactory...
...That, although the 18th Amendment permits states concurrent power of enforcement, it does not order that they shall avail themselves...
...world problems and affairs. Sentimental enthusiasm has little to recommend it; intelligent interest is a necessity in the development of citizenship. In whatever way such interest is created, its importance in an institution of the kind Harvard aims to be is undoubted. Mere intellectual development is of little avail without practical application...