Speaker. this appropriation is for the purpose of constructing an additional building. The capacity of the present building is. I think. only for 42 immigrants and is wholly inadequate in consequence of the importance of this port. The original or preliminary plan. on which the original appropriation of $43.000 was based. contemplated a nonfireproof construction. a building with a basement and one story in the dimensions that the gentleman from Illinois has given already. It is found that such a building could have been built for the original appropriation of $43.000. as given in the deficiency act of August. 1912. but the department finds that it would be more advisable to make it of concrete construction. so as to fireproof it.
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