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The other is H. R. 11188. a bill to provide for the transfer to the Department of Labor of certain forfeited vessels and vehicles. Notice that these bills are not identical. as the Senate bill provides for the transfer of certain forfeited or seized vehicles and vessels to several departments. whereas the House bill provides for their transfer to one department. the Labor Department. meaning that certain vehicles seized and given into the custody of the Treasury Department should go to the Immigration Service. The Senate bill was sent to the Secretary of the Treasury for a report. and that report to Senator SMooT carried the customary concluding line: It may be added that this department is advised by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget that the proposed legislation is in conflict with the financial program of the President. The House bill was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. and the chairman. the gentleman from Iowa . sent it down to the Treasury Department. and back came a letter calling attention to the report on the Senate billthey are not identical. mind youwith this old familiar line: It may be added that the department has been advised by the Bureau of the Budget that the proposed legislation is in conflict with the Presidents financial program. The House bill was an entirely different bill and had been prepared after an understanding in the Committee on Immigration and was introduced by the gentleman from Vermont . and when I found that the gentleman from Iowa. the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. had this report I udertook to investigate. I learned with respect to the report on the House bill that the bill had not been sent to the Bureau of the Budget at all. but that the Treasury Department had assumed that because there had been this adverse report as to the financial policy with regard to the Senate bill they were justified in adding it to the report on the House bill. That was a mistake. but it hung a millstone on the neck of the House bill. I am now informed that the departiinent is undertaking to withdraw its letter to the distinguished chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. and that the gentleman in this Budget coordinating service. under the director. who. I am inclined to think. is in sympathy with the. movement to increase the effectiveness of the immigration patrol. has prepared another letter dated about live days ago. and this letter is on the desk of the Director of the Budget. waiting for him to return to the city to sign it and send it up here ind get it -.. record in the gentlemans committee.