j. j SPLITS iON r ON N ALIEN AUEN LAWS W WASHINGTON Sept 13 UP lP-A lP A Aih cabinet fight over forte cornered ih cor cornered eed fic ri ts Ision on of t the e nationality laws ped into the e open today simultaneously simul simul- t with a revelation one I disputed dispute point was a proposal to tr rom from m th the courts to the labor department dtp the power to naturalize alien The move und understood to have j Originated with labor department which would have widened wid- wid ened tn d considerably consider bly the he jurisdiction Secretary Perkins PerkIns- w was s voted by a subcommittee e that has j t completed a a year two study of the thi nationality statu statutes tes The nie B survey was made at the In- In t nc of President Roosevelt who ed the secretaries of state and labor and the attorney general to tomake tomake make malec recommendations recommendations' for legislation legislation legisla legisla- tion tio-n to simplify and codify existing g gIa Ia laws vis on the subject So widely divergent were wore the views of the Interdepartmental advisory ad nd committee appointed by bythe th the three cabinet binet members to I conduct the study th that t they were unable to agree agree on a report report- The result was was that both a m majority anda and a minart minority minor minar- I ity t y report nave have been ceen submitted to 10 LU I ity t y report nave have been ceen submitted to 10 LU LUthe the cabinet committee for tor its final action I IThe IThe IThe The exact points of disagreement among the subcommittee members member and the identity of the dissenters were not learned because of the ac- ac secrecy se se- crecy with which they surrounded their labors tabors and their refusal to rev reveal reveal re re- re- re v veal LI the contents contents of f eith either r report That the proposal to make naturalization naturalization an executive rather than thana a judicial function had been put forward forward forward for- for ward and killed was c confirmed however by Assistant Secretary of f State Wilbur J. J Carr chairman of the advisory advisor committee It was intended originally that the cabinet committee should re re- re- re port its findings to the last session of congress but the the disagreements within the subcommittee added to the wide range of statutes covered rendered this impossible