Mr. Speaker. the explanation of this bill is merely this: When there was a Commissioner of Naturalization and also a Commissioner of Immigration. each man received a definite salary. That salary in total amounted to $15.000 a year. At the time these two offices were combined and placed in charge of one man. the salary was fixed at $9.000. which is below the level of other heads of bureaus. Now. we have had difficulty in getting the type of man in charge of the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization. who would do the very thing that the gentleman from Mississippi wants--namely. a better enforcement of the laws of both naturalization and immigration. We now have one such man in prospect. That gentleman in order to accept the position gave up an income of twice as much as $10.000. and we think it is only proper and right. in order to get that caliber of man that we have been wanting for some time. to place him on a par with the other heads of bureaus and grant him $10.000.
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