Speech #610266919

The steamship lines are required by law to pay all the expenses of detention of these aliens who are not permitted to enter. and we find it necessary to put these people frequently In hospitals and the like for care pending their deportation. These hospitals and other institutions in which we have placed them refuse to look to the steampship companies. but require us to pay them for the service they are called on to do. We. in turn. receive that money from the steamship compniiics. but. having paid it out of the appropriation. in the absence of a provision of this kind. the money would be covered into the miscellaneous receipts of the Treasury. and the immigration branch vwould lose that much of the appropriation for the expenditure of the service. Unless this provision is carrted. we must largely increase the appropriation. and it is in order to keep this appropriation down as much as possible that this provision is inserted. If we increase the appropriation. it increases. at their discretion. the expenditure of money in the Immigration Service. Now. all this amounts to is this. that if they take a certain amount of money from this appropriation and pty the hospitals and then present the bills to the steamship companies and get the moly. they can put it back Into the appropriation and use it again. whereas if they are. not allowed to do that we must have that much additional annual appropriation.