The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-25
Tours Europe in Style
and Government Foots
the Bill.
NO TIME WASTED
IN DOING WORK
Alleged Investigators of 1mlni.
grafton Conditions Denounced
in House, and Appropriation
Cut OFF Urgent Deficiency
Bill-Has Already Cost
S651ee3.

Washington. January 24.--By cutting
off an appropriation OF s1o50oo for
the National Immigration Commission.
the House to-day lent It's support to
several members. led by Represents
tive Macon. OF Arkansas. who de-
nounccd the commission and its work
and threatened 1t with immediate ex-
tinction. Unless friends OF the COM
mission succeed in having the item,
restored to the urgent deficiency bill
In the Senate 1t will be compelled to
suspend for lack Of funds. The COM
mission asked for the s125.00o which
1t needed 10 wind up It's work.
Senator Dillingham;. OF Vermont. is
chairman OF the commission. the other
members being Senators Lodge. Rep
resentatives Howell. Of New Jersey;
Bennett. OF New York. and Burnett. OF
Alabama; Professor j. w. jerks, of
Cornell University. and William r.
Wheeler. of San Francisco.
When the paragraph making the ap-
preparation for the commission was
the urgent deficiency bill Mr.. Macon
made point of order against It on
the ground that 1t was not de-
ficiency Following this action came
general assault against the commits
sion by several members. Mr.. Macon
making scathing attack on the body.
He charged that the commission had
gone on jnnketing trip abroad: had
spent ss57,9a5. and had accomplished
practically nothing.
4 Pleasure .Junkct.
this commission went abroad during
the summer of 1907, and that no report
OF the trip has ever been published.
and. in my Judgment, will not. fer It
seems the trip was pleasure iunket
for most of the members. rather than
an information gathering trip The
l5commfssion made no progress until
lforced to do SO by the late Senator
| Latimer. of South Carolina: who
threatened to return home on the next
steamer and inform the government
| on the floor of the Senate that the
commission intended merely to delay
| immigration investigation.
.Messrs. Latimer. Burnett and
| Howell, OF the commission. were al
| lowed to so to work, while the chair
man told Mr.. Wheeler, secretary to
the commission, 10 come with him and
enjoy himself that the immigration
problem had been thoroughly nvestt-
gated by the industrial commission.
and that only he and another knew
the real purpose of the commission"
Fl. NJ. Eperhard. of the State De-
partment. has entered a protest
against certain member Of the COM
mission for charging up as a part OF
his expense account the amounts
paid out by him for laundry.
tat ", o. t,oy -t,s, ay,d
automobile rides for pleasure on the
Appian Way.
Mr. Tawney. chairman of the Appro-
priations Committee, which reported
/ the bill, condemned the principle OF
| creating commissions with "perma-
! nent appropriations" but said he never
had been able to stop that practice.
Mr.. SABBATH. of Illinois: Butler. of
| Pennsylvania; Burnett. of Alabama,
who is member Of the commission
and others also spoke against the ap-
preparation, after which it was strick-
en- out on Mr.. Macon's point of order.
Bill Is Passed.
After refusing to appropriate any
money for the expenses of the 1mmi-
grafton Commission. the House passed
| the urgent deficiency bill. carrying a
total appropriation Of nearly $5,ooo,-
| 000 which Is a reduction of moro than
$1.000ooo from the estimates submit
| ted by the Treasury Department.
Following the action taken by the
Democratic caucus, the House appoint
ed Representative Graham. of Illinois,
| to succeed Representative Lloyd. Of
Missouri, as a member of the Ballin-
ger-Pinchot Investigating committee.
In the Senate Mr.. Tillman criticized
the administration for failing to pros
ecute suits against the Southern Pa
4 cific Railroad Company for therecovery
| of public land granted to the railroad
under the condition that it should be
1 sold In tracts of $50 acres at not more
than $3.50 an acre.
! The Notifications appropriation bill
/ was reported to the Senate to-day.
It carries s5.s17,2oo. a net increase OF
I 100000 over tho bill as 1t was passed
by the House. The Increase Is for
ammunition for seacoast cannon used
In the insular possessions
Contemplating the modification. of
| the eleventh amendment of the Con-
| stitution so as to prohibit one State
from instituttng suit against another
] except In the matter OF boundary dis
putes, Senator Overnaan, OF North Car
olina introduced resolution to amend
| the Constitution The resolution Is
4 aimed at individual holders of outlawed
bonds Of his State, who have endeav-
ored to make collection on them by
! the transferring Of them to other
States, Explaining his purpose in pre-
senting the resolution, Senator Over
I man said:
"The holders of the old reconstruct
4 tion bonds of the Southern States have
rendered certain Of the States sonie OF
these bonds as gift for the purpose
OF getting these States to sue upor
the bonds, as was done In the case Of
South Dakota against North Carolina
Many Of the States have declined tc
accept these bonds"
Land Grants Up Again.
The land grants Of the Northwest
which. at the instance OF Senator Till
man, received so much attention from
Congress- two Years ago and which
figured consul icuously in a sharp con
troversy between Mr.. Tillman ant
President Roosevelt were again to-da!