=================================================================== | | | DIFFERENCE IN YEAR | NATURALIZATION | COST OF | FEES RECEIVED | FEES | ADMINISTRATION | OVER COST OF | | | ADMINISTRATION ------+------------------+-----------------------+----------------- 1907 | $65,129.00 | $29,243.18 | $35,885.82 1908 | 166,873.90 | 232,728.05{2} | -65,854.15 1909 | 172,202.13 | 194,428.45{2} | -22,226.32 1910 | 221,766.38 | 176,415.98 | 45,350.40 1911 | 290,551.52 | 222,831.15 | 67,720.37 1912 | 338,315.33 | 257,678.99 | 80,636.34 1913 | 350,716.60 | 290,026.20 | 60,690.40 1914 | 450,228.55 | 331,517.26 | 118,711.29 1915 | 441,764.49 | 363,593.11 | 78,171.38 1916 | 410,272.55 | 389,075.90 | 21,196.65 1917 | 635,927.52 | 393,240.15 | 242,687.37 1918 | 507,932.50 | 416,486.84 | 91,445.66 1919 | 597,087.97 | 812,056.38 | -214,968.41 1920 | 664,539.20 | 753,383.83 | -88,844.63 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total $842,495.68 Less deficits 391,893.51 ----------- Excess of fees received over cost of administration $450,602.17 =================================================================== [note 1: Department of Labor, _Annual Reports for 1920_, p. 799, Table 24.] [note 2: Included in these expenditures are appropriations to the Department of Justice for maintenance of field force prior to the transfer to the Department of Commerce and Labor--_to wit_, fiscal year 1908, $193,000; fiscal year 1909, $150,000.] The Commissioner puts his finger on the ethical point involved, when he says, as for example in his report for the fiscal year 1918-19:[95] It is interesting and highly suggestive to note from the next table that, notwithstanding the “hard-luck story” told in this report as to arrearages of work and the delays and the omissions of first one and then another important feature of that work, the beneficiaries of such work--those who have paid their money for prompt and efficient service--have annually for years past paid into the Federal Treasury more than was used for the purpose for which it was paid.