... that the President of the United States may, in his discretion, upon investigation and report by the Department of Justice, fully establishing the loyalty of an alien not included in the foregoing exemption [relative to the apprehension of alien enemies], except such alien enemy from the classification of alien enemy, and thereupon he shall have the privilege of applying for naturalization; and for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this section, including personal services in the District of Columbia, the sum of $400,000 is hereby appropriated, to be available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, including travel expenses for members of the Bureau of Naturalization and its field service only, etc. Out of this emergency appropriation, made under stress of war conditions, for the declared purpose of dealing with enemy aliens, the Bureau provided for a large extension of its work, and for much-needed augmentation of its efficiency in the field, and for establishing the extra-legal position of Director of Citizenship, with more or less obvious functions. This would explain the somewhat cryptic allusion in the proposed amendment to the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill quoted above, to the “authority _now being exercised by_” rather than imposed by law upon “the Director of Citizenship,” etc. But just because it was an emergency appropriation, the new Congress showed no disposition to renew it, and in its absence the whole extra-legal structure under the direction of the Director of Citizenship was imperiled, and in order to save it from complete destruction very serious economies became necessary. The bearing of so large a windfall upon the general work of the Bureau may be inferred from this list of the appropriations for the Naturalization Service in each fiscal year since, and including, that ending June 30, 1908, during which the service was established: TABLE V APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE NATURALIZATION SERVICE FOR EACH FISCAL YEAR FROM 1908-1919 ========================= 1908{1} $193,000 1909{1} 150,000 1910 150,000 1911 152,861 1912 175,000 1913 200,000 1914 225,000 1915 250,000 1916 275,000 1917 275,000 1918 305,000 1919 675,000 ========================= [note 1: The field force was under Department of Justice during 1908 and 1909.] A further instance of the desire for additional powers, which characterizes the “personal equation” of the Naturalization Bureau, appears in a bill which was before Congress in the winter of 1919-20,[93] introduced by Representative Johnson of the state of Washington, which would have provided, among other things: