I desire to offer an amendment to the provision relating to immigration. at the end of the provision ont page 51. The amendment that I offer is to appropriate $100.000 for tile fiscal year 1922that is. for the present fiscal year. It is in the nature of a deficiency appropriation. I simply desire to call attention to it. and to say that the present conditilons show the utter recklessness with which economies are made. some economies being the worst form of extravagance. The appropriation for the Immigration Service was so inadequate that they will be obliged between now and the 1st of July to lay off most of the force by furloughing them for two weeks or t month at a time. and it will reduce it from a force which numbers only 1.200 nien to from 400 to 700 officers. The service is now ifiadequate. and this laying off of inspectors of immigration can have but one effect. an increase in the smuggling in of immigrants who are barred hy the law. and an increase in tlhq number of immigrants illicitly coming into tile country. I read tl article in tile New York Herald of Stnday last from wItich I wish to read just a few words because it expresses what has happened.
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