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Chairman. the tips I speak of. in. so far as the gentleman from New York is concerned. are rich. The commission had a meeting and agreed on tips on a 10 per cent basis. but the coxcomb member of the commission was not willing to allow it to stand at that. and complained in regard to it. and said that he bad a position in connection with his appointment as a commissioner and as a Member of Congress to sustain. and he raised the tip price and put it at about 25 per cent. In other words. the gentleman was trying to sustain the dignity of a Member of the American Congress and a member of the Immigration Commission by the tip route. Mr. Chairman. the gentleman from New York indicated that the commission had no time for pleasure. that he did not even see the Appian Way. but the commission seems to have seen something else.