There is no wave of hysteria sweeping over me at this time that would make me any more enthusiastic for this transfer than Ihave been ever since the subject of Government reorganization was first broached. I think we lose sight of the fact that this Bureau. or something similar to it. was formerly under the Treasury Department. We all know that in the last part of the nineteenth century and the beginning of this century immigration was treated more or less as a labor proposition and that there was a strong and determined effort on the part of certain big industries in this country to bring in immigrants on account of the resulting cheap labor that would follow. All one has to do is to look into the functions and duties of the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization. and I think if he will look upon it impartially. he will agree that it is and has always been. certainly in the last 10 or 15 years. a subject for the Department of Justice to handle. In that respect. I disagree with my good friend the gentleman from Illinois . who suggests that most of the functions should be under the State Department.
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