Speech #650377170

I am safe in saying. however. that if this amount of $200.000 is not. sufficient. the State Department will go this year to the same fund to which they went last year. and secure money in order to hire the number of employees they want. I think the Senate ought to know that the different departments of our Government made certain representations to Congress last year for appropriations. and Congress refused to give what was asked. but it develops now that where a refusal was made they went to the President of the United States. and asked him to give them money out of the fund that was given him as a confidential fund. and secured appropriations for the purpose of running the different departments of the Govern: nent. I know that that has happened. not only in the State Department. but in the Department of Justice. in the Department of Commerce. in the Bureau of Naturalization. and in the Department of Labor. I requested the other day that there be sent to the committee a list of all of the appropriations made from the fund of the President. showing to what departments it had been given. and the amount. Up to the present time it has been passed on from one to another. and I have come to the conclusion that we are not going to get the information.