WESTERN HEMISPHERE IMMIGRATION

FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1930

Houske oF REPRESENTATIVES,
CoMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION,
Washington, D. C.
The committee met in the committee room, No. 483, House Office
Building, at 10.30 o’clock a. m., Hon. Albert Johnson (chairman)
presiding.
The CuarrmMaN. The committee will be in order. We are honored
this morning by the presence of a number of prominent and very
busy men. There are here probably more witnesses than we will be
able to hear, but we will go along as fast as we can.
Our schedule calls for Mr. Harry Chandler, of Los Angeles, as the
Arst witness.

STATEMENT OF HARRY CHANDLER, PRESIDENT LOS ANGELES
TIMES CO,

The Cuairman. Mr. Chandler, you are a citizen of Los Angeles?
Mr. CHANDLER. Yes, sir.
The CuairMaN. And president of the company publishing the Los
Angeles Times.
Mr. CHANDLER. Yes, sir.
The CuairMAN. ‘Principal stockholder, I take it.
Mr. CHANDLER. Yes, sir.
The CuarrMAN. I read here that you have been the publisher of
the Times since 1917.
Mr. CHANDLER. Yes, Sir. }
The Cuammman. That you organized a syndicate and purchased
862,000 acres of land in Lower California in 1899 and were made
president of the California-Mexico Land &amp; Cattle Co., the company
producing $18,000,000 worth of cotton in 1919; that you purchased
47,000 acres of land adjoining Los Angeles in 1909 and organized
the Los Angeles Suburban Homes Co., the entire area of which was
sold in seven years; that you organized a syndicate in 1912 and purchased
 the Tejon ranch, consisting of 281,000 acres, in Los Angeles
and Kern Counties, Calif.; that you are now maintaining thereon
about 25,000 head of livestock; that you are an officer and director
in 25 California corporations, including banking, land, transportation
 companies and oil, irrigation, and manufacturing enterprises.
This committee is considering bills to place immigration quota
restrictions on the countries of this hemisphere. The bills before
the committee undertake to provide a uniform system for all of the
countries. Some of the witnesses are more familiar with conditions
on the southern border of the United States and others on the north-