I do not believe we ought to encourage informers anywhere by the payment of money to them. We have some penalties now. where we pay the Informer when we obtain information of violation of the immigration laws. and we put a specific provision in the appropriation bill to that effect. It may be necessary sometimes to do that. but it ought not to be the law of the United States that we hire informers to bring prosecutions for cutting the branch of a tree. In this case the man who picks a leaf off of a tree out of idle curiosity or interest may have somebody bring him up and cost him a penalty. to go to the informer.
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