Mr. Chairman. the appropriation for this item I understand was increased somewhat by the committee over the appropriation allowed last year. I want to call the attention of the chairman to the condition existing in the Naturalization Bureau of New York City. which includes the courts of Manhattan. Brooklyn. and the Bronx. The department has taken the work away from our State courts and naturalization cases are now being conducted. as I understand. by the Federal courts only with the result that but a small number are able to be called each veek fo: final certificate. We have a deplorable condition both in Brooklyn and in New York and in the Bronx. It takes all the way from 6 months to 9 and 10 months before it is possible B! for an applicant to receive the certificate of arrival or to be called for final hearing. On the one hand. we urge these aliens to become citizens. We have private organizations and State help and municipal help. with schools of instruction to teach these aliens English and civics. and when they do apply and are ready to be received Into citizenship the condition of the Bureau of Naturalization in New York. as well as the bureau here in Washington. which must check up their original landing. is such that it takes many. many months before the alien is called. I want to point out. as the chairman knows. that the fee paid by the applicant is sufficient to cover all expenses so than an additional appropriation here. as I understand. would !Lot entail additional cost to the Treasury. I understand an additional allowance of some $50.000 was made. and I submit that in order to give some relief to the bureaus in the great city of New Yorkand I believe the same condition prevails in other large centersthe chairman of the subcommittee should not oppose my amendment.
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