If I carry the idea of the Senator still further, it would be to say that the Government of the United States might make all possible regulations with reference to passengers water-borne, but could not touch them with any sanitary regulation the moment they entered our harbors.
Sumner critiques the limitations on federal authority regarding sanitary regulations for incoming passengers.
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