In many cases we paid $25 or $40 or $50 a day to those men. but. they did good work. and as a result of that some of the United States inspectors themselves were landed .in jail. That was eight years ago. Now it Is utterly impossible for the Commissioner General of Immigration or the Department of Labor to depend entirely upon their civilservice employees to do this work. Therefore the necessity of having this law. which allows them some leeway. in -order that they may employ the necessary men. Then if they are not being used .for a particular purpose they ought notto have to discharge a good man. who perhaps they could not get next time. but as is provided here to detail him to do something -else. It strikes me that it is unfair for the gentleman from New York to single out the case of a. person whose name he is not willing to divulge. The intimation I- have from a brief conversation with the Chief of the Bureau of Immigration is that there has been no such case as the bookkeeper that the gentleman referred to. If there has really been such a case. the gentleman ought not tO tie a string.to the proposition that he makes to the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Cox]. There is no charge here that there has been any fraud or mismanagement or misapplication of funds by the Immigration Bureau. Republican. or Democratic. Then. why say. "If you will have a general investigation of alot of conditions that nobody charges anything against. then I will give themname of a particular man whom he thinks ought -to be investigated "?
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