Chairman. the appropriation carried by this bill is the exact amount originally estimated for by the Department of Justice for this purpose. It is true that there has been an application made for an increase. but this amount carried in tl.e bill is the exact amount they at first said they wanted for this next year. This is not the only expense of executing the naturalization law. This law has not been in force quite two years. and if the legislative bill and this bill have no increase given above what is recommended by the committee. $211.340 will be appropriated for next year for the enforcement of this single law. I commented here the other day upon the modern system of appropriating money for enforcing laws and sections of laws as distinguished from appropriations for enforcing all the laws which formerly prevailed. and here is a striking illustration which I want to present to the House in snch a way that it will be. as I think. within the understanding of everyone. We are all of us inclined to be provincial. and when I discovered that this Department was engaged in going over every naturalization paper everywhere in the United States where fraud was suspected and where fraud was not suspected. I made inquiry of how many cases in the State of Iowa this Department had succeeded in successfully defending. and they told me something more than forty. I then asked them to furnish me with a tabulated list of all the rejections in the State of Iowa and the grounds upon which they were rejected. and I hold this statement in my hanl. After examination of it I do not know how many cases. but manifestly many hundreds and. indeed. some thousands of" cases in the State of Iowa. the Department of Justice triumphantly defeated something over forty applications. and I want to subinit why they defeated then]. The records of the Division of Naturalization show that the following persons have been denied certificates of naturalization by various courts of the State of Iowa for the reasons set forth after their respective names. to wit: Location. Petitioner. Cause. nooNE.
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