Speech #560080986

Mr. President. I hope the amendment offered by the Senator from Massachusetts will not be adopted. There are a number of members of the Committee on Appropriations who are opposed to enlarging the powers of the CommissionerGeneral of Immigration in any way whatever. and who especially thought that it ought not to have been done in a bill from the House of Representatives making appropriations for the expenses of the Government. but after a thorough consideration of the question and after consultation it was agreed to insert in the bill the amendment proposed by the committee. which still left the Secretary of the Treasury responsible for this work of making the rules and regulations. / I think the committee amendment leaves the matter precisely as it should be. If we are going to enlarge the power of the CommissionerGeneral at all. he ought to be under the supervision and control of the Secretary of the Treasury. who should be held responsible to the Government for carrying out the duties prescribed in the law.