I shall within the next few days introduce a bill providing by permanent law that passport and vis6 fees shall be $5 instead of $1. The records of the Department of State disclose that passports are being now issued at Washington at the average rate of 156.000 per year. Before the war immigrants were arriving in the United States on an average of about 1.000.000 annually. At the present time the average is 540.000 per year. Fees on the present average issuance of passports and inspection of passports of aliens will bring into the Treasury nearly three and onehalf millions of dollars annually.
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