It consists of 26 persons. 7 of whom are stenographers and 19 of whom are members of the staff. Its work does not consist solely of the subject of displaced persons. The staff has before it the very broad and comprehensive duty of assisting the committee to make a complete study and investigation of our entire immigration and naturalization system. I am told that two complete omnibus bills will probably be ready by In addition to the work along this line in which the staff has been engaged. there have come before the staff some 3.000 suspension cases. with which the Senate is familiar in a general way. more than 800 private bills. and the general bills which have been considered by the staff. It may be of interest to the Senate to recall. in connection with the size of the study and the problem of the investigation of the entire immigration and naturalization system. that the last preceding general investigation of our immigrr.tion system lasted for 4 years. My information is that more than 200 persons were employed in that work. and that more than $800.000 was spent on it. The period involved was from 1907 to 1911.
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