Chairman. I just desite in this brief time to point out that the argument of the gentleman from Texas was unintentionally a little misleading. It was not correct to say that the very large number of these appeal cases are caused by immigrants coming in excess of the quota. If members of the committee will look at the sample month of January. which Is put in this report. they will see that the total number of aliens involved in the cases of appeal numbered 1.924. the quota cases were only 206. averaging only a little more than 10 per cent of that amount. Neither is it correct to say that Congressmen are interfering in a great many of these cases. causing the great mass of appeals. Of course. people apply to Congressmen asking for their assistance. but January was a fair sample month. and there were only 174 of those cases out of a total number of 1.994. that is to say. less than J.P per cent in which Members of Congress were interested. Gentlemen must remember that at. a time when the immigration is very much restricted. restrictd perhaps to 10 per cent of what it would be under the old law. a very large portion of all the cases that come are appeal cases. because the appeal is given under the positive provision of our law. and it would he most inhumane to deny the officers before whom that appeal should be heard. And if we do not provide for this assistant secretary we force Ellis Island to become a jail. Certainly that would be a serious reflection upon us. but it is a jail because the cases of these people can not be promptly disposed of now.
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