I want to say. Mr. Chairman. the motion for additional funds for the Immigration Service will not call for an excessive amount. It will be offered at the proper place in the bill. I am calling attention to it in advance. A few years ago. when we had a great number of immigrants coming in. the money received for head tax was far in excess of that spent by the Federal Government for its whole Immigration Service. Now that immigration is limited to a certain numberthis year about 500.000 coming. each one paying a head tax of $8the Imimigration Service ran only $1.000.000 behind. or some such figure behind receipts. and on top of that there is the $10 consular visa. which is collected from each of these people but which goes into the Federal Treasurya great sum which is generally thought of as State Department income. but which comes from immigrants. I now yield to the gentleman from New York.
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