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Show MAY CHOOSE GALVESTON Goverirment Plans to Establish an an Immigration Station There. NEW YORK. May 5. Galveston, Tex., Is favorably considered as a Southern port for the erection of a United States Immigration Im-migration station, according to a statement state-ment made today by Frederick von Pills, a director of tho North German Lloyd Steamship company. Ho said that the company plana to catabllHh a lino from Bremen to a Southern South-ern port for tho purpose of landing Immigrants Im-migrants from tho rural dlatrjcte of Eu rope near the Southwestern States and Territories Ho -continued. Has Held Conference. "I discussed tho matter with Commissioner-General of Immigration Sargent and held an extended conference with Baron Spock von Sternburg. tho German Embassador. "Wo favor Galveston an our American terminal point. If this Is decided upon. Commissioner Sargent assured mo that the Government would In all likelihood proceed Immediately to erect a contem- plated landing station at that point." |