The fact is that heretofore the expenses of regulating immigration have been paid out of the head tax. That head tax has been wholly at the disposition of the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization. practically without restraint. tending to very great extravagance. From our standpoint the bureau ought to be required to come to Congress once a year for what money it needs. The reason it is desirable from the standpoint of the Immigration Service is that they no longer have money enough. so that both sides of this controversy have. as I understand it. now reached an agreement. The Immigration Service want annual appropriations in place of the permanent appropriation of the head tax because they are short of money. and we want annual appropriations so that when the immigration again swells. as it has in prior years. they will not be able to spend all the money. So it seems to be a very happy way. to my mind. on which we ought to agree on that subject.
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