Yes. there have been three bills. The first bill was $130.000. They went to Baltimore without consulting the immigration commissioner there at all. or his assistant. who is now immigration commissioner. and they bought a lot adjoining a fertilizer factory. a lumber mill. and a railroad switch. and they proposed to put a detention hospital for these immigrants there. The matter was taken up with the architect. and he said that he had no idea that we had not other accommodations there. He had thought we had everything else we needed except a detention station. And then we took the matter up. and it was referred to Mr. Taylor. the Supervising Architect. who told us what it would require to build a proper immigration station. And he seemed to have gone on the old basis that all we wanted was a detention house and heating plant. and for that he estimated $280.000. Then we had the present architect go there and look over the ground and get down to the making of the drawings. which seems to be the test in these matters.
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