The Sentinel=record., 1910-01-26
WANTS MACON ID RETRACT. ARKANSAS REPRESENTATIVE Ac. cusED OF REPEATING A MA LIcIous LIE ON FLOOR. Bennett of New York Says Correct Information as to Foreign Jun.
 ket Could Have Been
 Received.

Washington, Jan. 25--Declaring that James A. Patten, secretary of the I'm migration Restriction League, had told a wicked, cruel, deliberate and malicious lie,' when he gave Repre- sentative Macon of Arkansas the in- formation on which the latter based his speech yesterday, Representative Bennett of New York adopted Ia de- fense of the much maligned immigra- tion commission in the house today.
 Mir. Bennett was absent when the discussion which resulted in striking out of the s125.OO0 deficiency appro- priation for completing the work of the commission took place yesterday
 Mir Bennett declared the gentleman from Arkansas. by five-n1inute walk from the capitol. could have reached the headquarters of the commission and learned that his charges were un. true.
 q said interposed MT. Macon, "that had been advised that what I said was true The gentleman does not, I hope. deny that received thai in- formation"
 Mir. Bennett then referred to re- port made to the house within two weeks, which he said. showed the facts in relation to the white slave traffic"
 "The expenses of the commission and seven employees" proceeded MT. Bennett, for three months travel on the continent of Europe was only s1S- 900, travelling hs we did, as the com missioners of the best government under the sum-
 This statement requires instant, complete and full retraction," thun- dered Mr. Bennett, glaring across the aisle into the eyes of MT. Macon.
 storm of applause broke forth from the Republicans.
 "I wenA through Rome,' he said, without seeing St. Peters or the Ap- plan Way did visit the king of Italy which was my duty"
 Mir. Bennett insisted that las the re- suit of the trip abroad, the head tax on immigrants was raised by the leg islation of 1907, which had Increased the amount in the treasury $s,S00,0o0
 "We each paid more from our own pockets than was charged to the gov ernment,' Mir Bennett said. Tt was proposed we be granted lump sum and we insisted upon declining that proposition in favor of itemized ac- counts. If the gentleman will go 10 the treasury department he can find out what every egg l ate for break. fast cost"
 Taking up the charge that s90,000 was drawn from the treasury for this trip abroad, Mir. Bennett explained that that amount was placed to the credit of the disbursing officer of the commission and was expended for ex- penses abroad and for various ex- penses after tho return.
 As a result of the visit to Italy Mr Bennett said, the Italian government had gathered various information at great labor and expense, the result of which would appear in the report of the commission.
 Mir Bennett denied that the for eign trip was a "junket" and ridiculeJ the idea that Professor Jenks of Cor nell, member of the commission, had any influence upon politics as professor of politics at the Ithaca Uni verysity
 Whoever told the gentleman from Arkansas MT. Bennett said, that the commission had not begun to make its report until Senator Iatimer forced that to do so, told a wicked, cruel, naclicious and deliberate lie"
 The statement that the commission had obtained it's informatio nfrom DO lice records, MT. Bennett said, was