Mr. Speaker. this proposal is but a repetition of the old story that as time passes efforts in behalf of economy are met with proposals for new offices. Some months ago Congress passed alaw which very materially reduced the number of immigrants who can find their way into this country. Under. the old law with a million a year coming into the country there was no suggestion that an additional Secretary of Labor was necessary. Yet when we reduce the number to about 3 per cent of the nutmber originally admitted into the country. In and behold. the office of the Secretary of Labor sends an appeal to Congress that the force is overworked. and that they can not possibly get along and attend to the duties of the office without an additional assistant. That seems rather contradictory. It is a little strange that when the number of immigrants has been so tremendously reduced. it should be found necessary to create an additional office of the Assistant Secretary of Labor.
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