We appropriate a lump sum and go to work and say that Ellis Island. where 87 per cent of all the arrivals come. shall have onesixth of the entire force of men. A few moments ago there was some discussion here in regard to these conditions. If you could have seen the ceiling practically falling in. rooms which have not been painted for years. if you knew that there was not a towel for a single immigrant. and you do not even provide paper towels of any description whatever for the immigrant. you would wake up to what the conditions are. They speak of the amount of money coming in from immigration. Yes. Immigration more than pays for itself. Immigration has paid more than $5.000.000 during the last nine years above all the appropriations which Congress has made. and this Congress and no future Congress should try to make a revenue proposition out of immigrants coming into America. Yesterday before the Senate Immigration Committee the commissioner at New York. Mr. Wallis. described conditions at the island.
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