Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-25

nett of New York and Burnett of
Alabama. and Professor j. w. jerks OF
Cornell university and William r.
Whecler of San Francisco.
MT. Macon made a point of order
against the appropriation on the ground
that 1t was not u deficiency. Then came
general assault against the commits
SION by several members, Mr. Macon
making scathing attack on the body.
lie charged that the commission had
been on junketing expedition abroad
mad spent $657. 1893 and had accomplish
ed practically nothing.
Mr. Macon said that Prof jerks de-
voted the first part of each week to his
duties at Cornell, an institution which
all the time" He said that William
h Wheeled. who was also secretary
oil the Merchant Shippers association
OF San Francisco, was drawing $40 900
a year from the association and 81, 500
from the commission. regarding the
latter office as a political sinecure.
4 am advised" said Mr. Macon.
that this commission went abroad in
the summer of 1907; 1t sailed May IS
and returned Sept II, and that no re-
port of the trip has ever been publish
ed. and. In my opinion, Will not be
Tor 1t seems the trip was a pleasure
Junket Tor most of the members rather
than an information 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 government on
the floor of the senate that the COM
mission intended merely to delay i'm
migration investigation. Messrs. Lat
inner. Burnet and Howell were allowed
TO go to work. while the chairman told
Mr.. Wheeler to come with him and
enjoy himself that the immigration
problem had been thoroughly invesG-
gated by the individual commissioners
and that only he and another knew the
real purpose of the commission.
cannot swear to these facts, be
cause | was not present. but my in
formation has been received from a
reliable citizen. The members who went
abroad. were Dillingham;, Latimer.
Burnett, Howell and Wheeler, and they
were accompanied by their families
and two OF the secretaries of the COM
mission, one of them q Mr.. Crane.
whom, l am advised is q nephew of
Senator Crane of Massachusetts, and
the other, Mr.. Husband. Senator Dill
lingham's secretary
Il have heard that the auditor for
the state department has entered a
protest against q certain member of
the commission, for charging up as
part or his expense account the
amounts paid out by him for laundry,
hair cuts, shampoos, shines and auto
mobile rides for pleasure on the APP
plan way. ] understand that Mr., Bur-
nett and his secretary have been
abroad several times at the expense of
the commission. He Is one of the three
members of the steering committee"
Mr.. Macon referred to Prof. jerks
work as influencing students "in the
political way the party in power would
have them walk" He declared the
commissions report contained a mass
of material that could be culled at any
time from the process courts.
Chairman Tawney of the approprio-
tlons committee frowned on tho prac-
tise of creating commissions with
permanent appropriations"
Instead of mourning expenses and
then asking Congress for the neces-
sary money to meet them, as the i'm
migration commission had done. he
said. such work should be provided for
by annual appropriations.
Declaring that he believed the failure
of the commission to make its final
report was to prevent legislation re-
stricting immigration because an cleo
ton was approaching, Representative
Burnett (Ala-). member of the COM
mission. said he believed 1t should have
concluded Its work before now.