I have a very great deal of pride In my acquaintanceship with the gentleman from North Carolina. and I know his public spirit. and I know how lie would gladly say a good word for the chairman of the Appropriations Committee if it were necessary. We have evidence of it in the statement nuade by him last night. when lie rose. without suggestion from the chairman. to make his very able defense of him as one Member of this House who would not use his official position to obtain unduly an appropriation for the community in which lie lived. Now. it happens that in the bill which we have before us. and in this particular paragraph relating to the naturalization service. tucked away most delightfully on lines 14. 15. and 136. on page 152. close to the bottom of the page. where the ordinary reader might not see it. is this paragraph: Including an allowance to the clerk of the supreme court for Bronx County. N. Y.. for clerical assistance. to be made in the discretion of the Secretary of Labor for the fiscal year 1915. Here is a case in point. I absolve the gentleman from New York . the chairman of this committee. in deference to the statement of the gentleman from North Carolina . from any personal interest it? this paragraph at all. I do not believe the gentleman from New York had anything whatever to do with the inclusion of it in this paragraph relating to the naturalization service. I suspect he knew absolutely nothing about it. because no department chief camle before the committee to urge its admission. No Secretary froni the Presidents Cabinet appeared before the committee to ask that allowance should be made in this laragraph for the clerk of the Supreme Court for Bronx County.
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