Mr. Chairman. if commissions of this kind are to prevail in this country. it will not be long before it will be 6ommission ridden and the taxable burdens the people must bear will be unendurable. We also have a commission that I have heard some little something about. known as the "Immigration Commission." It has had something to do with the eating up of the finances of this country for the past three years. It has been extravagant in its expenditures to the extent of having employed more than 200 persons to prepare four or five little pamphlets of from 10 to 60 pages each. and. as I said in a previous discussion of its operations. nearly all of the facts in them were taken from other publications developed from other sources by individuals of other employment. This Immigration Commission. so I have read in a newspaperand I want it understood now that I can produce the publication showing that this vast herd of employees that it has had on its pay roll were selected by friends of the commission for reasons other than their fitness for the positions to which they were appointed. It is stated in the paper that one of them was taken from Mississippi. at a handsome salary. for no other reason than that he sources by individuals or other employment. This Immigration Commission. so I have read in a newspaperand I want it is related to a member of the commission. that another was taken from the State of New Jersey because he happened to be a constituent of one of the commissioners and desired to spend a few months in Washington at the Governments expense while he was doing it. Another of its employees. so this newspaper article reports. is in a dashing widow. whose only excuse for such a job was that she had a sweetheart in the city of .Washington and a certain Senator as a backer. Ah.
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