Mr. Chairman. I am indeed amazed at the statement of the gentleman who has charge o this bill. because of the lack of knowledge that he seems to posses in the matter of work of the bureau of naturalization. The head of this bureau appeared. as the evidence will show. before the committee and showed how this money was spent. Last year there was appropriated for this bureau $275.000. and because of the exigencies of war $400.000 additional was allowed to procure additional help for the purpose of naturalizing aliens who enlisted in our Army. It is estimated that we have about 12.000.000 aliens in the United States. The numl)er of registrants between the ages of 21 and 31 years was 1.703.006. Those who registered on the 12th of September. 1918. numbered 2.174.072. making a total of aliens who registered for our Army of 5.214.050. while the number of aliens and citizens registered was 23.908.576. thus making 21.9 per cent of all of those who registered as aliens and naturalized persons. Seven hundred and fifty thousand of those aliens who registered had no knowledge of the English language. Now. then. what has been done with this fund?
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