The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-25
NEW SENSATION IS
SPRUNG IN HOUSE
Turning Down 1926, 1000 Appro-
priation for National Immigra-
tiOn Commission Surprise.
WILL LIKELY PUT AN END
TO WORK NOW BEGUN
Representative Macon of Ar
kansas Makes Fierce Attack
Upon Commission.

off deficiency appropriation Of sl25.ooO
for the national immigration commission
the house today lent It's support TO sew
eral members, led by Representative Ma
con OF Arkansas. who denounced the
commission and its work and threatened
II with immediate extinction.
Unless friends of the commission sue
ceed in having the item restored 10 the
urgent deficiency bill in the senate It
Will be compelled to suspend for lack OF
funds.
The commission was created by an act
OF congress February 20. 1907.
Work of Commission.
II has brought out n number OF inter-
esting reports dealing with conditions in
their arrival in this country. Several
other reports arc In course OF prepara-
ton.
Senator Dillingham; of Vermont is
chairman of the commission, other mem
bers being Senator Lodge, Representa-
tives Howell OF New Jersey, Bennett of
Professor J. w, jerks of Cornell unver-
SS!ty. and William R. Wheeler of San
Francisco,
Mr. Macon made a point Of order
against the appropriation on the ground
that 1t was not deficiency. Then came
a general assault against the commission
by BY, sc several members, Mr.. Macon aeon
He charged that the commission had
been on a junketing expedition abroad,
had spent $65i 1923. and had accomplished
practically nothing.
Severe in Attack
Mr. Macon said that Professor jerks
devoted the FIRST part of each week TO
his duties at Cornell. an institution which
he characterized as playing politics all
the time" He said that William r.
Of
Francisco, drawing $4,000 a year from
the association and $500 from the COM
mission, regarded the latter office as
81 am advised said Mr. Macon. that
TINS commission went abroad in the sum-
mer of 1907. II sailed May IS and re-
turned September II. and that no report
OF the trip has ever been published and
In my judgment VIII not, for IL seems
the trip was pleasure junket for most
OF the members, rather than an infor- |
nation gathering trip.
THE commission made no progress un-
III forced to do so by the late Senator
ened to return home on the next steam
er and inform the government on the |
floor Of the senate that the commission
vestSation; Messrs. Latimer. Burnett
and Howell were allowed TO go to work,
while the chairman told Mr., Wheeler TO |
conn. come with him and enjoy himself, that
the immigration problem had been thor |
oughly investigated by the Individual |
commissioners. and that only he and an |
otner knew the real purpose OF the COM |
mission.
Reliable Information
~ cannot swear TO these facts because |
l was not present, but my intormatio
has been received from reliable citizen.
Inc Inc members who went abroad were |
Dllliinggham. l 1gh Latimer. Burnett, Howell
by their families and two Of the secre-
tarles OF the commission. one OF them
q Mr. Crane, whom, am advised. is a
of Son 1f
setts. and the other. Mr.. Husband SEN
ator Dilllngham's secretary
have heard that the auditor, for the
state department has entered a protest
against a certain member OF the commits
sion for charging up, as part of his ex-
pense account, the amounts Itid out by
shines and automobile rides for pleasure
on the Appian way I understand that
Mr.. Bennett and his secretary hnve been
abroad several times at the expense of
members OF the steering committee"
influence in Politics
Mr.. Macon referred to Professor Jenks's
work as influencing students "ln the no
llacal y way the party in power would
nave them walk. He declared the COM
terial that could be culled at any time
from the process courts: Chairman Taw-
ney OF the appropriations committee
missions with permanent epproprla-
tions. Instead OF mourning expenses
and then asking congress for the neces-
sary money to meet them as the lrnmi-
grafton commission had done, he said
such work should be provided for by am
nual appropriations.
Declaring that he believed the failure
OF the commission to make its final re-
port was to prevent legislation restrict
Ing immigration because an election was
approaching, Representative Burnett
(Alal member of the commission
said he believed 1t should have conclud-
ed its work before now,