Speech #800177053

With reference to the expenditures of the funds of the committee. I make these observations: The records of the disbursing office of the Senate will show that the entire expenditures of the subcommittee and four staff members un the complete European investigation of displaced persons amount to $3.251.33. The Senate will recall that uilder the provisions of Senate Resolution 137 the Senate Committee on the Judiciary was required to make a full and complete investigation of the entire immigration system. and the displacedpersons problem is only one phase of the investigation. Although the subcommittee which has been appointed under the provisions of the resolution has been operating almost a year on this investigation. it has not yet expended the initial appropriation of $50.000. Let me remind the Senate that .the last complete investigation of our immigration system took place during the years from 1907 to 1911. and that the appropriation for that investigation was more than $800.000. Mr. President. my observations today are made solely in order that the record may be corrected and may reflect the true state of the facts.