Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-08-23

United States and that he knows thu
ms and outs of politics and of legisla-
tive methods as well as most men
can know them.
During President Harding's two
years and five months in office George
b. Christian shared with another some
OF the work and responsibilities which,
under previous presidents, the secre-
tary had borne alone. Mr.. Christian
had little or no previous Washington
experience and it was deemed neces-
sary that there should be another u
the office who had the necessary Tain
ing in the capital and the necessary
acquaintance among national legisla-
tors and other public men.
WeIIiver's White House Work.
Nothing very much has been written
about the man who shared the work
of Secretary Christian He is Judson
@. Welliver, a former Washington cor
respondent and magazine writer and
one who through the years was known
as Republican of extremely progress
sive tendencies. Mr.. Welliver is an
Iowa man formerly connected with
one of the leading newspapers of that
state. He was at the Marion head
quarters of Warren G.. Harding in an
advisory and publicity capacity dur
ing the campaign of 1920. He came
to Washington and entered into the
White House service as chief clerk,
but in the main he was charged with
the work of keeping the president in
formed concerning certain matters
with which Secretary Christian was
not supposed to be familiar.
1t is believed that with the incom-
ing of Edward 7. Clark or of another
as secretary to President Coolidge,
Mr.. Welliver will leave the White
House, for Mr.. Clark is competent to-
perform not only the duties of the
secretaryship but those other duties
which William Loeb and Charles D..
.Hilles performed for Presidents Roose-
yelt and Taft and which Mr. Welliver
performed for President Harding.
There is one chief man of the execu7
tive staff OF the White House who
will stay where he is. He cannot be
spared. He is Rudolph Forster, who
for over twenty years has been the
executive clerk Of the White House.
forces. He has an acquaintance
among public men which probably is
unequaled, and has met and attended
to the needs of White House visitors
on business bent for a score of years
Rush Of Immigrants.
So much has been written recently
about the immigration question that
it might appear the subject has been
exhausted, but Washington officials
say it will not be exhausted until
some definite and workable plan has
been adopted which shall be salts
factory to the countries aboard and
to the United States of America.
On the first of August there were
1900 aliens on ships at the entrance
to New York harbor waiting to be adj
mitted to Ellis island, which can take
care of only ], 400 persons at one time.
This meant that many of the incomers
were compelled to stay on board ship
from ten days to two weeks. Tills
condition is the result of the quota
law, which admits only so many aliens
of each nationality each month an9
which causes a transatlantic race ( e
tween steamships of many lines, each
striving to get its shipload Under the
wire before the quota Of any one coun-
try is exhausted.
1t is known that conditions are not
altogether satisfactory at Ellis island,
but they are as good apparently as Is
possible under the present system OF
seemingly necessary crowding. It IS
said that the hardest-worked officials
of government are those on duty at
the immigration station off New York
City.
Secretary Davis Has Plan.
In all that has beel written about
the immigration subject a great per-
centage Of the words used have been
put to the service of discussion of fu-
ture legislation to regulate the admis-
sion Of foreigners. Now definite
plan has been proposed by which a
part of the Ellis island force will be
unnecessary.
Secretary Of Labor Davis has a plan
which will be submitted to the law
makers. He would examine all aliens
at the country of departure and thus
do a lot of wedding out Of undesir-
ables on the other side Of the water.
Further. the secretary would require
that all incomers should go instantly
to their ultimate destination and that
all of the admitted aliens should be
compelled to register and for certain
time keep the government Informed OF
their comings and goings.
Mrs. Muriel Lynch Crichton was sent
recently to Europe by Secretary Davis
to study immigration details. She has
returned and, as one of the results of
her study, declares that the present
method of admitting immigrants on a
per centum quota from the various
countries is inadequate in that it per-
mits admission of many physically f1t
but otherwise unqualified persons,
while hundreds Of others better fitted
for American citizenship are barred
simnlv because others managed to get
in before the quota was exhausted.
one of the things which this woman
investigator has said is somewhat
startling. She declares she heard
! = of criminals recpiving Suspend-