I agree with my able and distinguished colleague that the salaries of all of the employees doing the same kind of work should be equalized. but Congress does not seem to think so because it passed a law by which the customs employees working side by side with the immigration employees may receive from the steamship companies an amount for overwork and overhours. and. therefore. despite what my colleague may say upon the subject. we have those two sets of employees working side by side receiving different kinds of salaries. I know that he is by- temperament and judgment always endeavoring to do what is right and fair. The Committee on Appropriations has been repeatedly urged to take a trip to New York and go over to Ellis Island and look over the buildings and see the conditions under which not only employees are compelled to work but the condition of the building in which we are keeping each night .tpproximately 3.000 immigrants. That condition is aggravated and made worse by the fact that when socalled anarchists and those who might become a public charge are brought from nll over the country for deportation. they are sent to Ellis Island and not to the other ports from which they might just as well be sent back to Europe. They occupy the space which they never should be permitted to occupy. and for which Ellis Island was never equipped. On account of these indescribable conditions and because of the fact that inspectors do resign and get salaries of $3.000. $3.500. and $4.000 a year from private concerns. such as occurred the other day in New York. we urge changes in this condition. and will continue to urge them until Congress wakes up from the trance in which it appears to be.
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