Speech #610096985

But they say. Mr. Chairman. that it has been spent in the interest of immigration investigations. But what have they to show for it? As I have said. there are only these four or five little reports. about 5 by 8 inches in dimension. and containing from 10 to 60 pages. Any immigration society could have gotten them out in less than thirty days. at an expense not exceeding $5.000 at the outside. and yet the American people are charged with this enormous expenditure. $657.992.67. and must bear the burden without a groan. I insist that the resolution that I have introduced ought to be passed. in order that an investigation of the expenditures of the commission can be had. If It has not been extravagant. let them conic forth and show it.