Secretary Mills tells us that if the Customs Service must take its 10 per cent cut. he must close every port of entry In the inland States and must close the majority of ports along our coasts and borders. or consolidate the smaller with the larger ports. Each office closed and each consolidation means dispensing with the services of experienced men and women trained in the collection of Federal revenue. it meahs the discharge of clerks and other employees. Each office closed affords just one more loophole through which may be smuggled drugs and narcotics and one more loophole through which may be smuggled cheap alien labor to compete with American labor. No arbitrary cut made by the Senate since it went on its economy spree more clearly demonstrates the unwisdom of percentage slashes than the cut in the appropriation for Hoover Dam. The Interior Department. in preparing its estimates. asked for $12.000.000 to carry on work on this great dam enterprise for the next fiscal year.
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