In answer to the gentleman. I desire to quote this section of the report of the CommissionerGeneral of Immigration for the fiscal year ending June 30. 1007: In Philadelphia also the service Is handicapped by the lack of an Immigrant station. to which particular reference was made In the report for 1906 (page 71). Every effort has been made to obtain proper accommodations without resorting to the expense of constructing a station. hut without avail. The receipts at Philadelphia on account of head tax during the past three years amounted to $159.694. and the Bureau recommends that an appropriation of $250.000 be secured for use in the construction of a modern station at that port. I desire to say that I have information that that estimate of the CommissionerGeneral of Immigration was based upon plans that were prepared at the instance of the commissioner of immigration at the port of Philadelphia. with a view of having the Pennsyivania Railroad construct a station. which the Pennsylvania Railroad up to this time has failed to do. and the estimated $250.000 is based upon the actual plans prepared at the instance of the CommissionerGeneral of Immigration in Philadelphia. who desires to take into account not only the landing stations. but the house of detention and all those other accessories which are essential to a building of this kind housing 34.000 people a year.
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