But. Mr. Chairman. the gentleman does not seem to remember that in former days the Bureau of Immigration did not have its money appropriated to It by Congress as other bureaus had their money appropriated. The head of that service took the money received from head taxes and expended it exceedingly liberally. and. to my mind. exceedingly efficiently. With sonic misgivings. I myself. three or four years ago. consented to a change in the law under which I ain continually told by the immigration officials that the bureau is cramped. Nowadays that bureau gets its appropriations annually in the same way that other bureaus get their appropriations. Yet so peculiar is the rising and falling of the flood of immigration. and so ever changing are the requirements of the immigration stations that the bureau is continually hampered in adjusting its expenses to its appropriation. Sometinmes the appropriation is too great. Now. the gentleman thinks that the cost of enforcing the immigration law does not diminish when immigration falls off. I assure him that he is mistaken.
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