You will not try to regulate the rise and fall of the immigration tide through the medium of this act? "Secretary LANSINo. Not at all." Tesilmony before the committee indicates that there is a very .large number of aliens in Germany. Russia. and other unsettled conetries who are planning to come to the United States at the earliest possible moment. Many of theni. your committee believes. would be undesirable additions to our population at this time. Many of them could probably not be effectively excluded under the immigration .laws. The only way to check them is to stop them before thby start. by .means of the passportcontrol system. Your committee feels strongly the importance of watching very carefully the character of immigration which -shall be permitted to come to our shores during the crucial year which will -followthe coming of peace. Within that .year Congress can. and probably will. determine its future policy .with respect to the admission or exclusion of applicants for admissiou to the United States. The bill recommended. therefore. is primarily topreserve the status quo while Congress is considering its permanent program of regulation. Scarcely less important than the retention of the passport control is the provision of funds to make that control effective. The work is delicate. difficult. and expensive. To perform it properly will require the services of at least 225 special employees of the Departwent of State. scattered in accordance with the needs of the service over the great ports of the world from which the tide of immigration flows to the United States. Seventyfive of these special employees will be employed at $3.000 per annum. and 150 of them at $2.500 per annum. Their salaries. together with their traveling expenses. contingent expenses. and a small sum for additional employees within the department itself to administer the act. involve an expense of about $75.000 a month.
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