Speech #600144059

Now. here is a long list. I can not believe AttorneyGeneral Bonaparte or any. other man in charge of the Department of Justice would employ all these lawyers if they were unnecessary. Here are appropriations for assistant attorneys in naturalization cases. $8.107.59. Is that going to break the Treasury. when you have just appropriated $50.000 for a lot of people that you are so ashamed of that you will not take a receipt for the $50.000 when you give it to them? There is another appropriation for traveling expenses. $2.922. Here is an appropriation for the prosecution of crimes. $710. So the gentleman in charge of the bill. instead of showing an enormous and oppressive expenditure on the part of the Department of Justice in this matter. could not show more than a comparatively small expense. It looks like about $18.000 to employ lawyers to go into the courts and follow up the naturalization of the people who come over herethe undesirable setand to prevent a thing which- I believe the gentleman from New York said he aided in doingthat is. the fraudulent naturalization of voters in the city and State of New York.