Mr. Speaker. a law authorizing the purchase of a site and erection of an immigration station at Boston passed the last Congress. The money needed for these purposes was appropriated and is now available. The. Secretary of Commerce and Labor. acting under that authority. purchased a site in Boston. After the Government took title. the State of Massachusetts appropriated $3.000.000 to be expended for the development of Bostons water front. That development would have been greatly marred. if not rendered impossible. if the Government utilized its present site. Consequently it was deemed necessary by the Boston Chamber of Commerce to ask the Government to exchange its site for one that would not Interfere with the development scheme.
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