WESTERN HEMISPHERE IMMIGRATION 309

Mr. EsterLy. How much is that?
Mz. FirzepaTrick. How much is devoted to immigration?
Mr. EsterLy. Yes.
Mr. Frrzeatrick. It is hard to say. The amount of $30,000 covers
all of the activities of the department. I would be unable to say how
much might be allocated to the work of the immigration committee.
Mr. EsterLy. Would it be one-fourth of it?
Mr. Frrzepatrick. Well, it might be. I mean, at the present time
we are spending a great deal of time on that immigration work.
Mr. Esrerrny. Then, how much would this outside supplemental
fund be?
Mr. Firzratrick. The committee has no other outside fund.
Mr. Esteriy. One of its witnesses testified here that its funds were
augmented by outside funds. Where do you get that from?
Mr. FrrzeaTrick. If he made that statement, he is mistaken. I do
not think he did, but if he did, he is mistaken.
Mr. EsterLy. That is quite clear in my mind. I was just wondering
 who the people were who are subsidizing that committee on the
outside.
Mr. Frrzearrick. There is absolutely no money received from the
outside. The chamber’s general funds are drawn from members and
allocated to its various work, and no money from an outside source
is used, or anything of the kind.
Mr. EsterLy. Mr. Chairman, I would like for the record to be
checked back on that, and for the question to be propounded again,
and if that is not the case, then we could have the record cleared up.
The CuatrMAN. Very well, that can be done.
Mr. Crase. For how long a period would the disturbances continue
if we restricted this immigration on the border?
Mr. Firzeatrick. In the Southwest?
Mr. Cuase. Yes.
Mr. Firzeatrick. Well, it is hard to say how long.
Mr. Crase. What is the chamber figure you used. You said that
that was the reason you were opposed to any restriction, because of
disruption in an economic condition.
Mr. FirzeaTrick. Well, you would have acreage cut down that is
now being used for production of vegetables and fruits and cotton.
Now, how long that would last would depend upon the—
Mr. Clase (interposing). You do not have any definite estimate
of it. :
Mr. Fitzpatrick. No. 1 mean that is pretty difficult to get at,
Mr. Congressman. You would have to spend some time, and some
money, working those things out in detail. TI think it is a proper
thing that it should be worked out in detail, and it would be very
helpful, but would require extensive field work and the expenditure
of a large amount of money, and careful analysis of the situation.
Mr. Cuase. How far awav from the border would that situation
extend?
Mr. Frrzearrick. Just how far away I could not say. As I
say, we have a big economic activity which uses this labor, and if we
cut that labor off suddenly, it is bound to create a bad situation. We
do not know just how far. LL
Mr. CHase. That information in respect to economic disturbance
down there is created by the central body here, is it not?