Mr. Chairman. the Secretary of Labor reports that immigration is down to within 5 per cent of the 153.000 permitted under the act of 1927. It is practically nil. yet notwithstanding this fact we are increasing the appropriations from year to year. I do not believe that the total number of immigrants this year is more than 8.000. and still we are asked to appropriate an additional $200.000 for that bureau. What the Secretary of Labor does with the money is something I do not know. Of course. the deportation bill. which I voted for. was passed a few days ago. and I am willing that we should deport any undesirables. but I can not understand why the department is asking for these additional sums. which are increasing from year to year. unless it be to put in a lot of political appointees to do political work. Now. in 1923. when the President advocated the creation of a Budget Bureau. the country was promised that such a bureau would bring about a reduction of expenditures in all departments. but I have been waiting anxiously since then for the great service that was to be rendered by the Budget Bureau. In 1931 that bureau expended $208.000.
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