The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-02-02

WASTES LOTS OF MONEY
immigration Commission Scored
Storm OF Protest Aroused BY Re
guest for s125, 900 More-Lase
Senator Les;ncr, OF This State.
Was q Member.
Was q Merlber.

By cutting or deficiency sppTo-
pristion of s125, 900 for the National
immigration Commission. the House
Monday lent its support TO se7e,a!
members, led by Representative Ma
con CT Arkansas. who denounced the
commission and Its work and threat
ened It With immediate extinction.
Unless friends OF tie commission
succeed In having the item restored
to the urgency deficiency bill IN the
senate It Will be compelled to sus-
pend for lack OF funds The com
mission asked for the S125.ooa ap
preparation which it needed to WIND
up IFS work.
Senator Dillingham; Of Vermont is
chairman o; the commission, the oth-
er members being Senator Lodge,
| Representative Howell Of New Jer-
sey. Bennett OF New York and Bur-
| nett Of Alabama; Prof.. J. W. Ienss
| Of Cornell University. and William
r wheeler Of San Francisco.
When the paragraph making the
| appropriation 70. the commission was
| reached during the consideration et
the urgent deficiency bill Mr.. Ma
con made a point Of order sgatnst
4. On the ground taat it was no: q
deficiency. Following this sct.on
came a general assault against mo
commission by several members
Mr.. Macon making scathing attack
or the body. He charged taat the
commission had gone on a !uEkes-
Ing expedition abroad. lad spent
ss57.es3 and had accomplished rsac-
dcally nothing.
.T am advised" said Ar. Macon,
that this commission went abroad
during the GUNNER OF 1907. and
that no report OF the trip has ever
been published. and in my judgment
| will, not, for It seems the trip was
| pleasure juaket for mast OF the r's'n-
hers. rather shan an Information
gathering TIP. The commission
made no progress until force1 20 90
so by the late Senator Latino: "f
South Carolina, who threatened 10
return home on the next steamer
| and inform the government on the
soor OF the senate that the commits
sion intended merely 20 dei25 i'm
\ migration Investigation
Messrs. Latiner. Barnei. and
Howell Of the commission @eec al
lowed to 90 to work while The chair.
man told Mr. Wheeler. secrecA:y ~
the commission, to come vita hin.
and enjoy himself. that toe .nrt-
grafton problem had been to '7ouxhly
investigated By the indust::., eo':i-
mission and that only he AID one
other knew the real Durpos, OF che
commission.
"I have heard that the AUDITOR
for the State department has snfer-
| ed a protest against certain ncrc-
| Der OF the commission for charging
up as part Of his expense account
amounts paid oct by him for laundry.
hair-crts. snampoos, shines and tu-
sonobiie rides for pleasure on the
Appian way"
Nr. Tawney. chairman OF the a2-
preparation commission, which re-
ported the bill. condemned the Trin-
ciple OF creating commissions with
permanent appropriations. but
said he never had been able 20 stop
that practice. Mr. SABBATH OF Ilh-
pois. Butter Of Pennsylvania. Bns-
nett OF Alabama. who IS member
of the commission. and others also
spoke against the appropriation after
which it was stricken out on 2r.
Macon's poio: Of order.