Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-26
BENNET CLASHES WITH MACON
Head of immigration Committee
Answers Extravaganza Charge.
FACTS EASILY LEARNED, HE SAYS
Declares Trip 10 Europe Was Not a
JunICet and Did Not Even See
AppIan Way or st.
Peters.

WASHINGTON Jan. 26-Denouncing as
UNANIMOUSLY and maliciously and wantonly
false" statements made in the house yes
teriay by Representative Macon of Arkan-
sas. Representative Bennett Of New York,
a member of the immigration committee,
arose to a question of personal privilege In
the house today to defend the commission
against the attacks which were made upon
1t. Mr.. Bennett declared the gentleman from
Arkansas by a five-minute walk from the
capitol could have reached the headquar-
ters of the commission and could have
found that the charges he voiced were un-
true.
II said" interposed Mr.. Macon, that i
had been advised that wtll&Y I said was
true The gentleman does not, i hope, deny
that received such information
Insisting that Mr.. Macon might easily
have discovered the falsity of his charges,
Mr. Bennett referred to a report made to
the house within two weeks and accessi.
BILE to everybody which he said showed
the facts in relation to "the white slave
traffic"
II am very anxious to have the gentle
man make a statement Of the proceedings
Of the commission" protested Mr.. Macon.
Demands Immediate RetraetiOn.
1.-THE expenses of the commission and
seven employees proceeded Mr.. Bennet
"for three months travel on the continent
of Europe was only $4,000 travelling as we
did as the commissioners Of the best gov.
ernment under the sun
This statement requires instant com
plete and full retraction," Numbered Mr.
Bennett, glaring across the aisle into the
eyes of Mr.. Macon. A storm of applause
broke forth from the republican side.
Mr.. Bennett said he had spent only one
day in Naples in taking a vacation" by
seeing some objects of interest.
'I went through Rome" he continued
without seeing st Peters or the Appiar
Way. 1 did visit the king of Italy, which
II was my duty to do"
Mr.. Bennett insisted that as the result OF
the trip abroad the head tax on immigrants
was raised by the legislation Of 1907, which
had increased the amount in the treasury
SO, 800. .OOO
"The expenses of this trip" Mr., Bennet
continued, were borne by each of us to a
greater extent than by the government. II
the gentleman viii go to the Treasury de-
partment he can find what every egg ate
for breakfast cost"
| Mr.. Bennett denied the foreign trip was
''junket" and ridicued the idea thai
Prof. jerks OF Cornell a member of tho
commission, had any influence upon poll
ties as professor of politics at the Ithaca
university
''MaliciOus and Deliberate Lie"
whoever told the gentleman from
] Arkansas" Bennett said that the com
/ mission had not begun 10 make its reDor
until Senator Latimer forced them to dC
so told a wicked, cruel, malicious and de
liberate lie"
| The statement that the commission hat
obtained its information from police
records, Mr.. Bennt said, was absolutely
false and made out of whole cloth" H
then detailed the classes Of Information
the commission had collected and said tn,
United States Steel corporation alone hat
spent from $4,000 to $50 900 to gather in