WESTERN HEMISPHERE IMMIGRATION

be advisable to clutter up the record with extended petitions, but 1
would like to have members of the committee at their convenience
examine these documents.
The chairman has received a telegram from Mr. Leonor F. Loree,
of New York City, reading as follows:
Hearty congratulations upon your stand for restriction of immigration.
I take that to mean, inasmuch as the telegram is dated J anuary 15,
an indorsement of the effort to restrict immigration from the countries
of the New World. Mr. Loree, according to Who’s Who, is president
of the Delaware &amp; Hudson Railroad and 39 other companies affiliated
with it. Also, he is president of the New York State Chamber of
Commerce and is one of the foremost railroad men in this country,
During the period 1879-1881 he was with the Engineer Corps of the
United States Army. He was leveler, transit man, and topographer
in the preliminary survey and location of the Mexican National
Railroad. He was long connected with the Pennsylvania Railroad,
and during the World War he performed manv services for the Federal
 Government.
Mr. Box. I suggest that it would not unduly burden the record and
it would be proper to place memorials and resolutions from State
legislatures in regard to this matter in the record.
The Crarman. Without objection, it will be so ordered.
Mr. Box. I have several of those.
The CuamrMan. I suggest that those memorials be placed in the
hearings, as appendices, as far as possible, and that the petitions be
presented by title and signers thereof only.
Another telegram received this morning and signed by Mr. William
Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, reads as
follows:
American Federation of Labor is supporting immigration legislation for further
restriction from certain countries not now affected by the quota act of 1924.
We will endeavor to further strengthen the existing immigration law.
A number of telegrams have been received by your chairman, and
by various Representatives in Congress, from T exas, Arizona, New
Mexico, and California to date, asking that witnesses be permitted
to appear on behalf of various large organizations in those States.
From the tenor of those telegrams these people are inclined to oppose
this restriction on the ground that they need labor from the countries
to the south of us. The clerks are notifying them that they will be
heard not to exceed 20 minutes at any time on their arrival prior to
February 1. Most of these telegrams want considerable delay on the
ground that witnesses can not come. My excuse for shortening the
time is based upon the action of the House Committee on Ways and
Means, which limited witnesses, no matter from where brought, to
five minutes, and an additional five minutes by unanimous consent if
necessary. Witnesses from the State of Washington interested in the
lumber business were requested to come to Washington by that
committee and were permitted to speak for five minutes and dis
missed. They returned to their homes, 3,400 miles away, and
immediately received telegrams to come back, and they came. In
order to send those men the lumber and shingle men had to form an
association and raise the expense money and designate who they were.
When they did come they were lobbyists in the modern sense of that