The Sentinel=record., 1910-01-25
MACON SCORES
 COMMISSION ARKANSAS REPRESENTATIVE SAYS TRIP ABROAD WAS MERE LY A PLEASURE JUNkET. Commissioners Took Secretaries and Their Families and Paid for All
 Expenses Out of the
 Public Funds.

off "a deficiency appropriation of $125,- 000 for the National Immigration Commission. the house today lent fts support to several members, led by Representative Macon of Arkansas, who denounced the committee and it's work and threatened it with i'm mediate extinction.
 Unless friends of the commission succeed in having the item restored to the urgent deficiency bill in the senate it will be compelled to suspend for lack of funds.
 The commission asks for the $125,- GOO appropriation, which it needed to wind up it's work.
 The commission was created by an act of congress. February 20, 1907, and was authorized to make full inquiry into all subjects dealing with the ad- mission of aliens.
 It has brought out a number of in- tereszing reports dealing with condi- tions on immigrast ships and the lives of aliens after their arrival in this country. Several other reports on a number of allied subjects are in the course of preparation.
 Senator Dillingham; of Vermont is chairman of the commission, the oth- CT members being Senator Lodge. Representative Hoyell of New Jer- sey, Bennett of New York, Burnett of Alabama and Professor J. w. Jenls of Cornell University and William R. Wheeler of San Francisco.
 While the paragraph making the appropriation for the commission was reached during consideration of the deficiency bill today, MT Macon made point of order against it on the ground that it was not a deficiency.
 Following this action came a gen eral assault against the commission by several members. MT. Macon mak- ing scathing attack on the body.
 He charged that the commission had gone on iunketing expedition abroad. had spent s657.99S. and had accomplished practically nothing.
 Mir Macon asserted that Professor genks. who wss also professor of pol itical economy and politics at Cornell University devoted the first part of each week to Cornell, an institution which he characterized as playing politics at the time"
 He said that William R. Wheelock who was also secretary of the Mer- chant Shippers Association of San Francisco. drawing $10.000 a year from the association and s7500 from the commission, regarded the latter office as political sineeure.
 q am advised said Mir. Macon. that this commission went abroad during the summer of 1907, that 1t sailed May IS and returned Septem- Der IT, and that no report of the trip has ever been published, and in my judgment will not, for it seems tAe trip was pleasure junket for most of its members, rather than an infor- matdon gathering trip.
 The commission made no progress until forced to do so by the late Sen ator Latimer of South Carolina. who threatened to return home on the next steamer and inform the govern ment on the floor of the senate that the commission intended merely to delay immigration investigation.
 Messrs. Latimer. Burnett and How ell of the commission were allowed to go to work. while the chairman told MT. Wheelock to come with him and enjoy himself, that the immigration problem had been thoroughly inves- tigsted by the industrial commission and that only he and another knew the real purpose of the commission.
 'T cannot swear to these facts be- cause I was not present, but my in