Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-01-26
MIGRATION
COMMISSION
DEFENDED
CHARGES DENOUNCED AS
WICKED MALICIOUS LIE
Macon Declines 10 Take Back
Declaration That Trip Abroad
Was Pleasure Junket at EX-
pense of Taxpayers,
Hy MORNING Ioarnnl speeIal Leased wIrel

IBy Morning Journal special Leased Wirel
Washington. Jan. 2b-DeclarlAs
that james a. Patten. secretary Of the
Immigration restriction league has
told 4 'wieked. cruel, deliberate ana
malicious he when ne gave Repre-
sentative Macon Of Arkansas the M
formation npoh which tn otter hlscd
his speech Yesterday, Representative
Bennett made a. vigorous Iefense of the
immigration commission in the house
today.
THE statements Of the gentleman.
from Arkansas require an instant. full
land complete %rctraction." shouted Mr..
Bennett. after he had eSpained IN de-
tail the work Of tho commission. It's
trip abroad in 1907. which Mr.. Macon
had termed n "iunket," ana the Iesule
II had accomplished. Mr.. Macon mel
| Mr. Bennet's Nv mands With 4 sharI,
Ireply.
~ am not going % accept what the
gentleman from New York ts saia 70
this house rs gospel exclaimed Mr..
| Macon. 1T is Il question of vcracitF
and one OF th -sa gentlemen has rs
much eredence On the house as the
other until n or t.- othor shows
himself 10 be a ii1r and ihe otncf
shows himself t. lc 4 saln,-~and The
gentleman from NaN York Is nat j
saint"
Mr.. Macon admitted TINT SIR paftcn
I waa his informant. MI. Macon *.
| planned that MIR. Patter was 1 son in
law Of a deceased merlbcr ~ che COM
mission and was IN q position to know
n am not here 10 take bacN any
part of my statement HIT the lriI
abroad was a junket, as understood a
iunket,' exclaim d Mr.. Macon
Thus the incident was closed With
out Mr.. Macon having rerc'led from
his position. nut not ami af.c- Mr.
Mann OF lllinoi, had refused consent
to Mr.. Macon's rauuest for permission
to revise his remarks III the RECORD
Mr. Mhcon explained that H. merei'
wanted to correct the bad English,
bat Mr. Mann retnrted that Il was mn
necessary ia obtain consent for haei
and that both parties to The contto'
eersy would have 70 20 on record fcl
what They had said.
II was thought for a time thai
Manu's statement indicated that Mr.
Macon might be cnIled to account ls
the rules committee for using unpar-
tinmentarY language toward 4 fellow
member Of the house, hut It soon de-
gelopcd that there was no such intcn-
ton. it WAS argued that Mr.. Macon
had not called Mr.. liennet a liar, as
| some nlembors had construed his re
marks.
Mr.. Bennett made q general denial
Of The CHARGES voiced by Mr.. Macon,
and asserted that the member from
! Arkansas has made them without tak-
ing tho trouble 10 ascertain n they
were true. lie commission
had spont only $4,000 Of the peopi' 5
mcnev ON their trip of Investigation
abroad. but had gone down into then
own pockets for more than that
amount. rather than charge 70 their
expense accounts all they had spent.
During the four months the com
mission was in Europe, he said. he
had very little time to devote 70 sight
seoiue.
'I went through Rome without See
my ST. Peters or the Appian way de-
| clarca MIR Bennet. and added that he
had made but two flying trips 70 Paris.
ana In each Instance had left 10y the
next train.
When Mr.. Bennet ~~'ntted that Will
liam II. Wheeler had given up a $l0.-
GOO position to accept n for $500
with the commission, Mir. Macon, In
credulous. interrupted 10 say that II
he had done that he would regard
himself as "a "knaVe or fool.
81 have uo objection to the gentle
mans characterization Of himself.
was Mr. Bennet's retort c~ourteously.
MIR Bonnet said the immigration
commission had accomplished much
good since il was created, having
broken w the white slave traffic, .
taken steps TO exclude alien criminals.
When AIR. Bennett asserted that v -
lions ON immigrant ships,
$50. 49,. - r. 1AlN no -