Chairman. This particular service is not the only one in which the Government makes use of informers. The alien contract labor law. under which the informer is entitled to receive pay for information which leads to the arrest. indictment. and conviction of a person violating that law. and other laws pertaining to other branches of the service. under which inforeners are also employed and paid. are as susceptible of criticism as the clause under consideration. Now. I agree with the gentleman who has just taken his seat that if this appropriation be stricken out the arm of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue will be paralyzed. and that illicit distilleries will spring up in certain parts of the country. and especiallyin the good old State of Virginia. and in North Carolina and in Georgia.
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