Having the claims come to the Judiciary Committee necessitates the committee hiring all this extra help. amounting to perhaps half or even more than half of the $130.000 expended each year in order to operate the committee. I would say that the staff probably spends more than half. its time examining these private claims bills. The measure now under consideration. however. does not deal with private claims. but deals solely and entirely with immigration cases. If we continue the present practice. Instead of having 1.800. the number of private immigration bills now being considered. we shall have 10.000. I think something ought to be done to stop that In some way. I pointed out in the course of my previous remarks that it costs $400.000 to print the reports to accompany the bills in the Senate. There ought to be some way to limit that expense. Since private bills. as well as immigration bills. are the subject of 50 percent of the reports made to the Senate. there should be some way in which a saving could be effected.
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