I hold a letter in my hand from the Assistant Secretary of Labor. dated April. 30. 1920. showing conclusively that at the port of New York at the present time there are 10.000 such. applications that can not be acted upon. and that they are behind at least five months in acting upon them. They are behind at Montreal several months. and at various other ports the same regrettable condition prevails. I may also add that the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization has reported a bill. H. R. .3646. which repeals the ecrtificateofarrival provision. and by the adoption of this amendment we would relieve at least a dozen clerks from doing this useless work and at the same time save $5.000. The newspapers and others interested in having aliens become American citizens. including the Bureau of Naturalization. are all in favorof the adoption of this amendment.
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