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Show MACON VIGOROUSLY SCORES BENNETT WaKhiuftton, Feb 8. Demanding an invest iat ion of the immigration com-mlnslon com-mlnslon provided for In a resolution he had introduced Representative Ma- con,- of Arkansas renewed Ills attack upon this romralifdon in the house to- day. Mr. Macon vigorously defended his informant. J. H. Patten, secretary of the Immigration restriction league, who was severely arraigned by Representative Rep-resentative Bennett of New York, a member of the commission; ln a" recent re-cent speech In the house. "It Is characteristic of the man to proceed in the cowardlv way in which the gentleman from New York has proceeded." thundered Mr. Macon, re-ferrinR re-ferrinR to the New Yorker's attack on Mr. Patten. Mr. Bennett was quickly on his feet. "I object," he said, and the members mem-bers were all attention in anticipation anticipa-tion of a lively scene. "I withdraw the remark," quickly riponded Mr Macon, and the tension wan ditsipated. Mr Macon's speech was made in reply re-ply to Mr. Bennett's deense of the commission and tae renewed his charge that the committee bad besn extravagant He declared official reports re-ports and eipense accounts corroborated corrob-orated hi? assertions that its trip abroad in 1907 was "junket" and that ihe government had had no adequate return' from the expenditure by the j commission of W57.051. Personal Adornment Bills. "I'nless my resolutiou to create a commission of three to Investigate the extravagance of the commission is adopted, so the country will know that the extravapance I complained of J is fcnndalous. the people will rise i and smite the party that attempts to j shield the commls&lon that made It," said Mr. Macon, "Six members of the commission and toven employes made the trip to J Europe;" he said. . I "They, drew $90,00.) ou which to I make the trip, while in their report the official records, 'Mr. Macon charged charg-ed that in the Holy Land, the commission com-mission mad a carriage trip from Jerusalem Je-rusalem to Bethany and from Jaffa back to Jerusalem: that in London they had a carriage to Ambassador Reld's and return; a carriage to the house of lords, to West Minster Abbey, Ab-bey, to the tower of London, to Re- gent. Square, and the British museum, j I that "In Italy they had a carriage to j the catrcombs. that In Messina they had a ride In a Landau; that in Scot-! Scot-! land they had a pleasure ride to tho Castle of Edinburgh and in Ireland to the famous Lakes of Kilarney. "The commission wanted to find out the kind of immigrants that came to this country from all these places, Including In-cluding the Catacombs where sleep and decay the bones of the departed." said Mr. Macou, sarcastically. He suggested that to have gone to Mr. I Bennett for his information, as Mr. i Bennett suggested, would have been as practicable as to hunt "devils In Heaven, or saints. in Hell." Election to congress, he continued wa6 not conclusive evidence of Integrity, In-tegrity, nor did it make Mr. Bennett Immune, from attack. Cells of Felons. , A much larger percentage of congressmen, con-gressmen, whether members of the house or the senate hav- been charged charg-ed with crime and made to stand trial for Monies and incarcerated In felon's fel-on's cells, he declared, than of the secretaries sec-retaries of immigration restriction leagues. "The very suggestion that one ought not to charge a congressman with having done wrong until the let-! let-! ter of every word of every fact charged charg-ed against him can be proven to a I mathematical certainty, is 80 contrary to what I believe to bo right, that it Is actually disgusting. "The commission defends It6elf against the charge of extravagance, and so did the capltol commissioners 1 of the state of Pennsylvania defend I hemselve.s aainsi extravagance In the construction of that building. Morse, cf New York, and Walsh of Chjcugo, both high up in life, defended defend-ed their extravagant expenditures of trust funds. One of them Is now serving time in the pmltenllary at Atlaijta and the other at Fort I?aven- I worth." I they account for only $20,0,.-,. j "The expense accounts . are made up of steamship and railroad charges, carriage eharpes. fees and lips, hotel bills, telegraph, wines, whisky, cog- nacs. mineral waters, lemonades, I chirrs nnd siphons, citrons, cigars, clnnlnt; and pressing clothes, shaves, J shines. . haircuts-, shampoos and rubs.! ."Such luxuries as wines and wills- 1:V, cocn;4C. lemonades, etc., were allowed al-lowed by the judltor, but he disallowed disallow-ed when it came to shaves, haircuts, shsmpros. shines Hud cigars." Mr. Mar on characterized the stopping stop-ping a hlrh rlas hotels and partaking partak-ing of their menus and beverases, as "feast ills at public expense." . He asknl Mr, Bennett to explain i why he con hi take up time to eusage n gorgeous festivities in Turkey, j ..here ills wife was decorated with he la?l?.nla of tho "Order of Kindness," Kind-ness," an ancient Turkish society, by Uo Sultan, if he could not find lime :o draw a long breath in Paris, or rast his eyes upon St. Peters, iu Rome. I.iIr was In reply to Mr. Bennett's Ben-nett's statement that his trip to Paris was record breaking for brevity." nar.in; his vemaiks on inspection of |