Mr. Chairman. this amendment. of course. would abolish the useless Commission on Boundary Disputes between the United States and Canada. Presumably the justification for the existence of this Commission is to keep a sward 20 feet wide cut in the area between the two countries. or that part of the boundary that might be timbered. so that the border patrolmen can lock up and down that 20foot strip. After carefully reading the testimony. it is very difficult to find very much more than that to justify its existence. The ground on which I present this amendment is simply this: In the pending bill under an appropriation for border patrol we make a generous appropriation to provide 712 borderpatrol officers for the boundary between the United States and Canada to do the work that this Commission claims it is doing. I think it is generally understood in the House that this Commission has long been just about as useful as a tooth brush and a tube of Pepsodent wculd be to a hen. I hope the Committee will seriously consider adopting my amendment.
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