There can be only two justifications for this type of thing: First. that it is needed for the good it is to do. I doubt if any other appropriation has been made for the organization of a branch or division of government where the salary of the head of the division was fixed at onefifth. or 20 percent. of the entire appropriation. It raises the question as to whether or not the purpose of this item is entirely that of affording relief to political refugees. or whether it is not for the purpose of providing a $10.000 job for some individual. I submit to the consideration of the committee every argument that has been advanced by the gentleman from Nebraska in his very pertinent comment upon this section is intensified when you examine the section and realize that $10.000 of the $50.000 is to go for the salary of one man. My amendment would limit the salary and reduce it to $7.500. thus saving $2.500 for the real purposes of the item.
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