This has resulted in tying up shipping with losses estimated at between ten and twelve million dollars a year to the maritime business. The subcommittee as well as the full Committee on Appropriations saw fit to deny the requested $67.500 in public money and has not included any appropriation therefor in the pending bill. For many years past the steamship companies have been pleased to pay for the overtime services of customs and immigrant inspectors in inspecting their ships. None of these overtime costs have been borne by the Federal Treasury. For a number of years now. these companies have also sought permission to pay overtime pay on the same basis to the Foreign Quarantine Service so as to have 24hour inspection service. The adoption of the pending amendment would permit the companies to pay the overtime and would result in no cost whatever to the taxpayers. It would thus place the Foreign Quarantine Service inspection on the same basis as has been the basis for overtime in Customs and the Immigration and Naturalization Service. In his testimony before the Subcommittee on Appropriations for the Departments of Labor and Health. Education. and Welfare on January 28. 1957.
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