On January 10. 1928. I again called the attention of the House to the situation in respect to the border. and among other things said this: Another thing I wish to call to your attention. The Customs Service and the Immigration Service are not well housed. At Derby Line. where 400.000 people pass every year. until two years ago the necessary examinations were made on the piazza of a country hotel. I succeeded in interesting some publicspirited citizens. who saw the shame of this great and rich country doing Its business in that way. in the acquiring for the services of respectable quarters at a low rental. At North Troy. where more than 200.000 pass every year. a room 10 by 15 in one end of a railway station served as an office -where five men worked in the winter and eight in the summer. It was also used for the detention of immigrants and for the storage of captured liquor. There. too. publicspirited citizens had to come to the rescue of the Government. and as a result a building has been erected for the transaction of the business of the Government. I look ahead with hope to a day when the United States will erect at the border a uniform type of a building for the Customs and the Immigration Services that will be a credit to us. A subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee headed by Congressman SPEEVE of Pennsylvania made an inspection of conditions and familiarized themselves with many of the problems confronting our Treasury Department and our Labor Department in the enforcement of the laws of the country along the international border. Out of the agitation. the work of this committee. and the investigations of an interdepartmental committee. has come a settled policy of providing immigration and customs inspection stations that are suitable for the growing demands. As a result of this policy the last deficiency bill provided for the allocation and the building of such stations at Alburg. Highgate Springs. and Beecher Falls.
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