I want to say in reference to this bill that I took this matter up with the Secretary of Labor and told him of the deplorable condition at the Baltimore immigration station. He took the matter up with the Secretary of the Treasury. and then the Secretary of the Treasury directed the Supervising Architect to take action in this matter. I then went before the Supervising Architect and asked him to prepare drawings for these buildings. and he went to Baltimore and looked the situation over. He came back and said that he could not prepare drawings for the necessary buildings in Baltimore for any such sum as $280.000. I then asked him to figure on the very lowest he could build the immigration station for. and he sent in this estimate. which it took him some little time to prepare. It has been prepared with great care. and it sets forth that it will take $600.000 to build that immigration station complete. And let me say in this connection that there is not an immigration station on the Atlantic seaboard that is complete.. The one at Philadelphia is not complete. the one at Boston Is not complete. nor is the one at New York complete. although they have spent a great deal of money. This will be the first immigration station that will be built within the appropriation and complete.. Every time they have had to come back and ask for more money.
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