The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-04-04
Wig Ways from Washington

surgent Republican group.
In the senate, Senator Caraway, of
Arkansas, goes after Speaker Gillett,
of the house, and charges him with
breaking congressional courtesy rules
because of recent speech he deliv-
cred in Boston. The speaker and
others from Massachusetts, get back
at Caraway because he dares to criti-
cize the speaker on the floor of the
senate. It's a regular cat and dog
fight at the capitol every day. IL il
isn't one thing of that nature, its
two.
Those who are good at figures, and
that includes senate officials, are
busy nowadays figuring up what all
these inquiries and Investigations are
costing the people and it is estimated
right now that it is going to total
somewhere around $250,000 before
June 80, 1924, the end of the present
fiscal year.
There is no question but that it is
holding up legislation as next week
brings us into April and congress will
have been in session practically all
Of December, January, February and
March, four months, one-third of a
year, without doing much of anything
except making Investigations and
playing politics.
Injurious to United States
Representative Fred Britten Of
Chicago, has just returned from
two-weeks inspectation trip in Cuba,
and he reports that SO much muck
raking by congress is hurting the
prestige of the United States in 9TH
err countries.
So that the cost to our reputation
and the total sum of a quarter Of a
million of dollars a session of con-
gress is making our national house
cleaning an expensive luxury.
American Legion Joins In
1t will be good news to Klansmen
to hear that the American Legion
has joined in the fight on the immi-
grafton question. The Legion agrees
upon the desirability of absolute
stoppage of immigration for the
present, but, in the absence of abso-
Lutte stoppage, demands the strictest
possible limitation, according to an
article by John r. Quinn, which will
appear in the April isue of the Amer
lean Federationist.
"The joining of these two forces,
viz, the American Federation of La
Dor and the American Legion to COM
bat propaganda for unrestricted inn
migration is offered as an indication
of the fact that the great masses of
American people are entirely out of
sympathy with the attacks being lev
elled at the Johnson bill or at any
proposal to restrict the inflow of
Europeans" said a statement from
the federation.
Commander Quinn declares the
melting pot has become impotent
and that in order to keep America a
true democracy, eve should suspend
immigration for whatever period may
be necessary until we provide ma
chinery to teach immigrants how to
live UP to the American standards
of living, to our ideals and our trad
itions."
What Gompers Says
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, says:
american must not be overwhelmed.
Every effort to enact immigration
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number of hostile forces, and in par
ticular, two hostile forces of consid-
cradle strength. These are composed
of corporation employers who desire
to employ physical strength at the
lowest possible wage and the racial
group in the United States who op-
pose all restrictive legislation be-
cause they want the doors left open
for an influx of their countrymen re-
CARELESS of the menace to the peo-
Pile of their adopted country"
Opposes Immigration
The national association of manu-
facturers is out and out opposed to
restrictive immigration and has so
gone on record. The immigration
committee of that organization has
recommended that congress re-enact
the 3 per cent quota law, expiring
next June 80, with added provision
for administration of the act in such
manner that immigration might be
gagged to suit economic require
ments and meet the nations ability
to assimilate newcomers. A perman-
ent government policy towards immi-
grafton was advocated and the APP
pointment of a commission to COM
pile data for use in the adoption OF