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Description: Stopping The Illegal Influx of Aliens;
General Distress Will Be Checked;
Mrs. Willerbrandt Did Not Testify Before House Committee
Newspaper published in: Huntsville, AL
Source: Library
Page/Column: Page 10
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (AP) – Stopping of the illegal influx of aliens as a means of relieving unemployment was demanded in the house today, coincident with the introduction of a bill proposing to bring about rigid enforcement of the immigration laws through compulsory registration annually of all aliens.
The attention of the house was directed again to the immigration problem by Chairman Johnson of the immigration committee, who said congress had not appropriated enough money for the immigration bureau to enable it to stem the surreptitious entry of aliens. The fourth department supply bill being considered would provide $9,000,000 for the immigration service, an increase of $885,000 over last year.
Johnson quoted commissioner Hull of the bureau as saying “it was humanly impossible for the bureau to do the work congress expects to do with the money provided.”
The registration proposal was advanced b y representative Cable, Republican, Ohio, a member of the immigration committee, in a formal statement he said it would enable the government “more easily to ascertain the names and addressed of illegal aliens and proceed with their deportation.”
Cable estimated that more than a million aliens had entered the United States without legal admission.
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GENERAL DISTRESS WILL BE CHECKED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (AP) – Developments of the last few weeks are believed by Julius H. Barnes, chairman of the national business survey conference, to warrant confidence that efforts to check business recess as a result of the fall stock market crash before it mounts into general unemployment and distress can be successful.
Addressing a national radio audience tonight, he said the confidence expressed after the market deflation by President Hoover and business leaders in the prudent judgment and common sense of the American people had been justified.
One of the reassuring factors in the minds of the president and the business world two months ago, Barnes continued, was the evidence that credits would be released to that money at reasonable rates would be available for construction activities.
Barnes also cited as a factor helping to sustain business the realization that buying is reduced in any movement toward wage cuts, with the result that “there has been an almost universal effort to sustain wage levels.
“Unemployment and the distress of workers has been used throughout all history,” he said, “as the basis for reducing labor changes.” He said that “it is significant indeed in the vast world of industry, there has been almost no deviation from the determination to maintain elaborate earnings.”
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MRS. WILLERBRANDT DID NOT TESTIFY BEFORE HOUSE COMMITTEE
By CECIL B. DICKSON
Associated Press Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (AP) – Out of respect to those charged with enforcing the Prohibition law, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, former assistant attorney general, declined today to testify before the house expenditures committee considering transfer of the dry enforcement unit from the treasury to the justice department.
The invitation was extended Schafer Republican, Wisconsin, by a vote of 8 to 7.
This development in the prohibition tangle came as committee in both branches of congress laid plans to resume hearings on legislation proposed to carry out President Hoover’s recommendations to strengthen prohibition enforcement.
On Monday the house expenditures committee is to hear attorney general Mitchell and W. C. Deming president of the civil service commission, on the Williamson bill to effect the prohibition enforcement transfer.
While hearings have been delayed in the house judiciary subcommittee on the Christopherson bill to broaden the powers of United States commissioners in an effort to relieve congestion federal courts, the senate judiciary subcommittees expect to begin hearing on both the transfer and commissioner bills next week.
As a means to bring about better enforcement of the dry laws, Representative Dyer, Republican, Missouri, suggested in a conference with President Hoover that the matter of authorizing the manufacture of non-intoxicating beer of 2.75 per cent alcoholic content by weight be considered by the National law enforcement commission.
Dyer, a member of the judiciary committee, in a letter to Chairman Wickersham of the commission, said that if 2.75 per cent beer were to be made legal under the eighteenth amendment, it would satisfy the thirst of 70 per cent of the hard liquor drinkers of the country.
In the house, Representative Cox, Democrat, Georgia, demanded final determination of the law which permits the transfer to federal courts of cases brought against federal dry agents, in order to prevent abuse of the privilege.