"I know that is responsible for it. I admit that up to date we have apparently been interested more in seeing how much money we could obtain as a head tax than to remedy abuses. We have collected $11.000.000 during the last nine years. but we have failed to appropriate a sufficient amount to pay inspectors a living wage and to provide sufficient doctors to carry out the law. I have been over to Ellis Island any number of times. I have noticed these conditions. A year ago last November I urged the passage of a resolution by which the Committee on Immligration could look things over. I think the House will bear witness to the fact that I have repeatedly urged proper appropriations. going before our Conmittee on Appropriations. and I have urged sufficient naturalization machinery. I repeat now that you never will be able to say that you have performel your full duty until you provide sufficient naturalization machinery in the shape of clerks and judges deeply interested in that important work. Eight hundred thousand dollars above all of the appropriations into the Treasury of the United States is the profit we have received from naturalizing aliens.
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