Speech #680181273

I want to complete my statement. I have only five minutes. The work can be done by the Bureau of Naturalization. The $3.000 which the county clerks would be entitled to retain in fees would be ample for employment of one or two clerks necessary to serve as a pipe through which the papers would reach the judges of the supreme court. As a matter of factand I say It with. all due respect to the committeeI consider it absurd that the Bureau of Naturalization should contribute $60.000 to the clerks of the courts of the State of New York to. do the work. particularly when during the eight months that they have functioned the Bureau of Naturalization has demonstrated that it is able to do for 20 cents what the State agency was doing for 55 cents. So I say. Mr.