Gentlemen. you know this is now a large bill. The total appropriations we are recommending for your consideration and acquiescence for tie fiscal year 1928 are $83.459.390.91. It embraces a variety of items. extending from the new activity of establishing. lighting. and maintaining airways under the act of Congress last year to the foreignservice activities of the Department of State all over the world. and from investigations and tests on highly technical questions in the Bureau of Standards to the Bureau of Immigration and its border patrol. In order to cover this large field of the Governments activities and guide this committees recommsendations and observations in an intelligent way it is necessary to go into each item in a painstaking and quite frequently exhaustive manner so as to develop the facts for presentation to you. I commend to your attention the printed hearings on this bill. as they contain much valuable information and interesting reading. and I ask your indulgence for a while as I take up the bill somewhat in detail and explain to you what we have done before general debate is concluded and we proceed under the fiveminute rule.
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