That letter \vas written because it had been suggested by the old Appropriations Committee. of which Mr. Tawney was chairman. that the matter should properly come before the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. and the reference to the gentleman from Missouri . who was then chairman of the Committee on Plblic Buildings and Grounds. was made because in the opinion of that gentleman. at the time and under the circumstances. this matter should go to the Committee on Appropriations. Now. as between this sort of " battledore and shuttlecock." for three years. we have been receiving immigrants in our city. in unsatisfactory . quarters. The city itself has made appropriations and expenditures to provide temporary stations for them. But the number of immigrants has been increasing constantly. six new steamship lines have been established and are landing their immigrants. and we have no permanent Government controlled place to put them. This. therefore. it seems to me. is a question of the greatest possible urgency. I want to show the committee exactly what the conditions are.
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