There is a provision of law that commissions appointed by act of Congress shall not have authority to rent real estate for the purpose of carrying on office work without the consent of Congress if it is situated in the District of Columbia. The Immigration Commission. appointed under the authority of Congress. is authorized to carry on its investigation and to incur all necessary expenses for that purpose. Undoubtedly it would be authorized to rent an office in New York if it saw fit. but under that provision of law it can not do it in the District of Columbia. The work of the Commission now is that of investigating home conditions. and It involves a considerable amount of statistical work by a number of employees of the lower grades. and they eed space for doing the work.
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