Chairman. I move to strike out the last word. I desire to call the attention of Members to the fact that the $600.000 for the Immigration Service mentioned in the paragraph just read is to cover a deficiency and is intended to be a sufficient sum to enable the Bureau of Immigration to carry on satisfactorily for the fiscal year ending July 1. An investigation made by the House Committee on Immigration. of which I have the honor to be chairman. discloses that the Bureau of Immigration in the Department of Labor was. roundly speaking. $300.000 behind on about January 1. which is half of this sum now being appropriated. So. then. onehalf of this deficiency appropriation is to be used to meet obligations. Just prior to January 1 the Bureau of Immigration was obliged to telegraph around to the different stations throughout the United States to suspend deportations just as far as possible owing to the shortage of money in the current appropriation. It was thought by some who have investigated this matter that the $600.000 would be enough to enable the Immigration Service to carry on after July 1. considerably in excess of the money that will be available in the regular appropriation bill. which sum it now appears is likely to be same sum of money appropriated for the last year. that Is. for this current year. To my mind It appears that if it takes $600.000 extra. and $300.000 is already spent or obligated up to February 1. we are going to start on July 1 on a close margin. and run very thin in carrying on the whole Immigration Service. I think that in almost no time we will find that the Immigration Service will again have to slow down on necessary deportations.
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