Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-01-06 | Page 7 | President Withdraws Watchhorn's Nomination

Jt PRESIDENT WITHDRAWS tm ' WATCHHORN'S NOMINATION VSHTNGTON, Jan. Tho nomioa-sm nomioa-sm tion of Robert J l. Watchhorn for com-ri-JM missioner of immigration at El is Island, to succeed himself, sent lo the i'Jmm ' HeDate vestordav, was withdrawn by I'fffll J'resident Roosevelt today. 3t-a ' Senator Dillingham, chairman of t ic jpM I committee on immigration, said that he M 1 had been informed that numerous .Jm i-hares of a technical cliaraoter had been filed against, the eommisoiont-r, JfJw aud that if was far this renson that tw President Roosevelt had decided to ,nf withdraw the nomination, rpmbors of the Senate committee understand that lB tho commissioner had mado a great gw.?5B many enemies by reason of Jus rigid tjl enfoi:cemont. of Ihc immigration laws.