Speech #610096488

I think there is as much agitation in this country now to know where the expenditures in the PostOffice.Department go as there is in the little Forestry Bureau. that does not expend one dollar where they expend a thousand in the PostOffice Department. If there is a deficit of $63.000.000 a year in the PostOffice Department from carrying magazines and papers at 1 cent a pound when we are paying the railroads of the country 9 cents a pound for carrying them. let us have that to accompany this report also. Two or three years ago Congress authorized an Immigration Commission. It is said that they spent $500.000. I apprehend legitimately. and. I think. for a good purpose. If we are going to have the expenses of one department printed. let us have that report accompanied by a report of the expenditures of the Immigration Commission that Congress. authorized. which has expended $500.000 of the peoples money. Last year we authorized a currency commission. which. I think. was a most meritorious proposition.