Mr. Chairman. Baltimore at the present time is terribly hampered in its immigration business. We are using an old building not more than 16 feet front and probably 60 feet deep with a side yard as a detention station. Sometimes there are as many as 150 or 200 people huddled together in this old building. It was therefore determined that we should have a new immigration station. and a bill was introduced asking for $250.000 for the purchase of a site and the construction of such a building. Congress appropriated $110.000 out of an authorization of $130.000. the $130.000 being available at any time. The Secretary of the Treasury. having a rule that no more than 10 per cent can be paid for any site. decided that he would not pay more than $13.000 for a site in the city bf Baltimore.
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