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Show BERKHAN PLEA HAS BEEN BENIEB Uhl Admits Loose Methods At Ellis Island Station. NEW YORK, Nov 26. Representative Representa-tive Johnson, chairman of the boure 'committee, announced that be hncl been informed b the bureau of Immigration Immi-gration that dpplicalion of Alexander Berkman for permission io go froa; I the United States to Mexico instead of being deported to Russia had been denied. de-nied. Uhl. appearing before the committee when it resumed its hearing thin 'morning, made this admission after 'Chairman Johnson had asked if, under !the administration of his predecessor, the lslnnd was "not a gambling house. bawdy house and a forum of bolsh-ev- ism." In reply to Turthrr questions Uol admitted that previous 'o the resignation resigna-tion Of Mr. Howe last September, Immoral Im-moral women had been allowed to circulate cir-culate among other prisoners He fur ther admitted ihat one Chinese crew-had crew-had Indulged m gambling o such an extent that a seaman had lost ?o000. After the arrival from Seattle of a trainload ol "reds" he Baid anarchistic paper and literature had oeen circulated circu-lated on the island. Chairman Johnson Introduced Into ewdence letters seized Trom Mr. Howe's file. One. date) October , 1A1R orli-lrossorl to 'riel HOWj" and signed "Emma Goldman.' It dealt Iwith the case of Joseph Goldberg. I 1 alias Joseph Durant and 'Petit Joe," who. Mr Johnson said, records of the I department of labor showed had been engaged in white slave traffic for se eral vears before his arrest ln Los An-geles. An-geles. Although ordered deported, he had been allowed to sail for Spain at his own expense after several other 'countries had refused to receive him. , ! Referring to Goldberg, who ?t that itime, Mr Johnosn said, hnd oecn or-Idered or-Idered deported to Franc-. !.he Gold-1 man letter declared it ' would be a ter flble thing to turn him ov'er to sure ! death." According to the letter, Gold berg had been recommended to tiro writer by "David Kaplan," and a mi li named Schmidt, "of whom you have heard from Lincoln Steffens " Goldberg, according to the c'epai! mcnt of labor's records, had brought women into the United Stites and France from Africa, Mr. Johnson said j Members of the committee ;ilso in troduced a lettei alleged to hjve been i written by Howe to George Andreyt-i Andreyt-i chine. Records showed, recording to Mr Johnson, that Andreytcnine htd bet M arrt Bted in Luluth on the charge j Of b. ing an I W. W. rioter. The Howe letter congratulated the I W. W. that ihis deportation warrant bad been can-j can-j celled by Acting Secretary J. B. Dens-j Dens-j more. Andreytchineta answer aho wis read He assured Howe he would do I all he could "to further the coming of t he golden age " ) "Then this fellow seems to have been turned loose to spread the doc Itrlnes of bolsheviam' remarked Representative Rep-resentative Baker of California at this : ' point. I Another letter which Howe l sai l I to have written Elizaonh Guerley 1 Flynn in connection with Andreyt- . I chine's case also was read into ihe rec-1 rec-1 ord oo |