Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-12-21
CONGRESSMAN
PARKER WINS
EIated With Decisive Victory
Over immigration Officials.
tFrom tho NEWS oorrespondont.)

tFroH the NEWS Ccrrespondent)
Warrington, Dc. 21:-Representa-
tive r. Wayne Parker, of Newark,
is much pleased at having won a de-
cided victory over the immigration
officials both at New York city and
in the department here. More than
a week ago Hene Dudkin, a girl of
fourteen years of age, arrived at Ell
lis Island from Russia, her native
country. She left a mother and two
sisters in Russia. She was coming
to live with her uncle, Abraham
Dudkin, a resident of Newark, who
is empl 'yed with Joseph and Bondi.
cloak makers.
Because the girl landed unaccom-
panied by a parent, and since she
was under the age of sixteen years
of age, she could be excluded under
the law, or2admitted at the discre-
ton of the Secretary of Commerce
land Labor. Her case was consid-
erred by one of the special boards of
inquiry, and the decision was that
she should be returned. The board
Inc no option under the law, and the
decision was confirmed by William
Williams, the commissioner, who
could do nothing else under the cir
cumstanees. An appeal from the
adverse decision, however, was ta-
ken and the case came to the De-
APARTMENT of Commerce and Labor.
benjamin Gable, the assistant secre-
tary, who had the matter ia charge,
after a review of the case, affirmed
the decision of the special board of
" o.,s~Y ar1 III civil yyo nrdnrnd m
be deported to Russia.
When Mr.. Parker took up the
lease of the Russian girl the order
for her deportation had been trans
mitted to New York and she had
been placed on board the vessel. MIR.
Parker made suhc a good plea in
her behalf that the Secretary OF
1Commerce and Labor wired for the
girl to be placed on shore again, and
the case was r~eopened. Mr.. Parker
among other things, showed that the
girls father had been killed in a
!, Trolley accident only a short time
before; that she could have employ
! ment as soon as she arrived at New
lark, and that bonds for her not be-
lcomonig a public charge would be
furnished by relatives. Mr.. Nagel,
/ after due consideration, signed the
1 order admitting the girl, and she has
I been allowed to join her uncle az
t Newark.
= Another case in which the law
was interpreted too literally, per-
haps, at Ellis Island, has been re-
tversed by Mr.. Cable, the assistant
7 secretary. Lillian Maud Allen, an
| l1,.aItch lucYf1an npad tXVpnfU-G1Y
! years. who was on her way to join
the Pillar of Fire Company at Bound
, Brook, was ordered deported by a
. special board of inquiry. In his in
Edorsement of the papers Mr.. Cable
: stated that there Is no likelihood
! that she would become a public
] tcharge, and he ends his statement in
these words, This Is a land of re-
ligious liberty"
There is little hope of getting the
bill for the Garfield monument at
Long Branch, through this winter.
1t seems strange that the committee
lin library should be so reluctant 10
report the bill. One might almost
think the members of the committee
were deficient in patriotism. At all
jeyents, they hesitate to make an APP
propriation of 80 small a sum as
100000 to honor the memory OF the
martyred Garfield, and yet many an
appropriation bill carries n hun
bred times that amount for some
purpose not SO commendable.
Plainly, the Democrats are puz-
zled by the question as to the method
which shall be adopted for the Sc
lection of the committees In the next
congress. Some one has found a
book of which Woodrow Wilson,
goyernor-e1eet of New Jersey, is the
author. 1t is entitled. Congress
sional government" 1t contains a
chapter which deals with the very
proposition. DR.. Wilson recites the
trial of the present plan by the
first Congress, which In 1889 Or
(dered the selection Of the more inn
Iportant committees by balloting.
Less than one years application or
the plan sufficed to demonstrate the
tundesirability, and in January, 1880,
the house adopted the rule for the
appointment of the committees by
the Speaker which has stood until
this day.
mo house, however foolish in
other respects" says DIR. Wilson In
This book, "has yet been foolish
enough to make fresh trial of elect
ing It's committees. That mode may
do we'll enough fer the cool ana
Ieisurely Senate, but it is not Tor
the hasty and turbulent House"
The matter will be thrashed
out thoroughly in the caucus OF the
Democrats that will be held in Janu-
airy, but at present the party IS
greatly divided as to which plan