Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-25
LIES SAYS Bennett
Denounces Assertions About
immigration Commission.
TELLS OF TRIP ABROAD
Denies That It Was in Any Sense
Junket.
ANSWERS MACON'S CHARGES
Declares That the One Who Fur
|. nished the Latter's Information
Uttered Falsehoods.
ANSWERS MACON'S CHARGES

II was like old time Roosevelt days''
in the House OF Representatives TO-DAY.
when such words as cruel, malicious.
wicked, deliberate and malicious lie ami
lies out Of the whole cloth" We're used.
Mr. Bennett of New York was the utterer
of these words. and they were leveled al
the purveyor of some of the statement
furnished to Mr.. Macon Of Arkansas ana
by him used in the House YESTERDAY
afternoon when he attacked the immigra
ton commission for alleged extrava-
gances in its expenditures
Mr.. Bennett of New York started the
shindy today by rising to a personal eN-
PLANTATION and starting to tear to smith
Greens the allegations Of Mr.. Macon. made
yesterday. He was frequently interrupted
by applause from the republican side. and
at the close of his remarks received an
ovation. Mr.. Macon obtained unanimous
consent to reply to him, but the House.
ON account of pressure of other business.
was unwilling to grant him more than
half an hour for his retort.
Denies Trip Was Junket.
Mr. Bennett had been one Of the com
which was alleged by Mr.. Macon to have
been a junket. Mr.. Bennett said at the
outset that out of the $685., 900 expended
by the commission only $4,000 had been
expended on the trip. every penny of
which had been accounted for by
voucher.
He added that every member Of the
commission had expended more out of
IL. L.. oh, Il
to the government. OF his own expenses
of 81 400, only $40 had been suspended by
the Treasury officials. not rejected, but
suspended for further explanation.
And the gentleman can go to the de-
partment," cried Mr.. Hennet, and find
out what paid for every egg for break
fast"
Mr.. Bennett contended that the work OF
the commission had brought into tho
Treasury more than S4,000,Cn0. in head
tax, which otherwise would not have
been levied. He paid the highest tribute
to the work of other members at thu
commission, and showed in detail how
they labored assiduously on the task. He
detailed the various branches investigat-
ed and the results obtained. and con
tended strenuously that the money wa
we'll spent. Mr.. Bennett attacked a mum
Der of statements made yesterday by
Mr.. Macon, and all the way through his
remarks repfOa cnod Mr.. macon Tor MS
onslaught yesterday.
Indicates the Author.
Taking up one of Mr.. Macon's asser-
tons, the source of which Mr.. Nacoa
had refused to reveal. Mr.. Bennett ste
matized the statement as wicked, cruel.
malicious and deliberate lie.
Mr.. Bennett named James A. Patten.
secretary of the Immigration Restriction
League. as the probable author OF MI.
Macon's information This same gentle
man. Mr.. Bennett said, had spread similar
stories throughout his congressional dis
trict and had tried in that way to de
feat him in the last election.
Macon Replies.
Mr. Macon was granted half an hour to
reply to Mr. Bennett He insisted that he
had not, as charged by Mr.. Bennett. taken
advantage of the latter's absence from
the chamber yesterday to break loose
with his charges against the immigration
commission. Until he got UP to speak. he
said he had been under the impression
that Mr.. Bennett was on the moor, anu
then when he found the gentleman from
New York was not on hand, he knew
that he would read the remarks in the
Record anyhow, and so went right ahead
Mr. Macon admitted that the man
named Patten. secretary Of an immigra-
ton restriction organization. was the man
who had given him the facts on which
he had based his charges. lncidentals
he reiterated these charges or eXtraNa-
gance, etc, on the part Of the commits
sion
Mr.. Bennett wanted to know IL Patten
had also told Mr.. Macon, as the latter as
serted on the floor of the House yester-
day, that Morton Z. Crane, secretary ii
the immigration commission, WAS
nephew of Senator Crane.
Question of Veracity.
He most certainly did, cried Mr.. Ma
con- shaking his finger at Mr.. Bennett.
Then" retorted Mr.. Bennett with a
smile, that statement is just As untrue
as all the rest made by Mr.. Patten.''
At this point Representative Gardner o.
Massachusetts, interrupted. declaring that
he and Patten were great frie,ds. thai
Patten came from his own state, that
Patten know Morton Crane was not "a
nephew of the senator. and intimated that
it was remarkable Mr.. Bacon should say
that Patten had made any such state
ment.
THAT lies between you and Mr.. Pat
ten" said Mr.. Macon, Il am telling >"h
what Patten told me.
Much to the amusement of I'll. House
Mr.. Macon then turned on MIR. Benno.
and remarked that there WAS a queSttni
of veracity between Bennett and PATTI.
that the latter was still in Washinet"',
and that il Bennett didn't settle the IIt.s-
ton right away he didn't have the SANE
kind blood in him that flowed tlEottt.
the veins of the gentleman from N-
kansas.
After some more talking the lnclh"at
passed off without bloodshed.
Il am not going to accept eNeryti ~
the gentleman from New York has aslt
to this House as gospel, continued NJ
Macon 1T is a question of velaci
and one of these gentlemen has a. MT !
credence on the part of this House ~
the other until one of them shows NM
self to be a liar and the other shows liln-
self to be saint, and the gentleman