Speech #660082602

There may be one matter that comes under the Holman rule. and I thought the gentleman would invoke that rule. But when Congress failed to appropriate enough money to carry out an existing law. that itself creates a deficiency. This Congress appropriated only $450.000. while the Sixtyfifth Congress appropriated $675.000. thus the Bureau of Naturalization was required to dismiss 167 clerks. What has been the result. As the gentleman from Ohio said. in C:evelanml alone 8.000 aliens are waiting for certificates because they can not be delivered. The other day the Naturalization Commissioner notified me that in New York alone 15.000 applications are on file and can not be looked after.. while in the offices in Washington there are about 10.000 applications not acted on. because they do not have a sufficient number of clerks. What else have you? During the war the Sixtyfifth Congress passed an act-