Chairman. the testimony in this matter appears on pages 692 to 699 of the printed hearings before the committee: It will be seen that the officer in charge of this work asked Congress to give $1.000.000 for this purpose. I think anyone who has read the hearings and gone into the matter. will appreciate fully the reasons for the appropriation. One of the extra costs borne by the Government now is because of the want of efficient assistance both in making the original arrest. the transportation to the place of hearing. the detention and final deportation abroad of these anarchists. The mode and method of the hearing is specified in the record. Anyone who examines the record of the 249 anarchists who were deported on the Buford on the 21st day of Decenber. 1919. will find that the men were not only confessed anarchists but were proven anarchists by the record. and that the majority of them not only believed in the destruction of this Government but they believed in the assassination of public officials. and they believed in the unlawful destruction of life and property. The written record is there in each instance. Myself and others read part of those records.
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