WESTERN HEMISPHERE IMMIGRATION

TUESDAY. JANUARY 28. 1930

House oF REPRESENTATIVES,
CoMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION,
Washington, D. C.
The committee met in the committee room, No. 483, House Office
Buiiding, at 10.30 o’clock a. m., Hon. Albert Johnson (chairman)
presiding.
The CrairMaN. The committee will be in order. We have quite
long list of witnesses this morning. Several of the members of the
committee are engaged in other committees, but thev will come in as
300m as they can.
Mr. E. E. McInnis, of Chicago, representing several railroads, is
here. We would like to hear Mr. McInnis.

STATEMENT OF E., E. McINNIS, GENERAL SOLICITOR, ATCHISON,
TOPEKA &amp; SANTA FE RAILWAY SYSTEM

The CuamrMax. Give us your name and business address. Mr.
McInnis.
i McInnis. E. E. McInnis, 1211 Railway Exchange, Chicago,
The Crairman. What railroad do you represent?
Mr. McInnis. I am general solicitor of the Atchison, Topeka &amp;
Santa Fe Railway system; and I appear for that railroad and also I
appear as chairman of a committee of the western railroads organized
Some two years ago for the purpose of giving expression to the views
of the western railroads on this particular matter.
The Cuamrman. Then you do not appear for the Association of
Railway Executives?
Mr. McInnis. No, I do not.
The Cuarrman. And the member railroads.
Mr. McInnis. That association includes nation-wide railroads. 1
ippear only for the western railroads.
The Cuairman. You appear for the Atchison, Topeks &amp; Santa Fe?
Mr. McInnis. Among others; yes.
The Cuairman. Is your position about the same now as it was for
‘he Santa Fe Railroad on January, 1913, on January 3d of that year?
Mr, McInnis. It is the same; yes, sir.
The CuairmMaN. And is it the same as it was in 1907?
Mr. McInnis. No. I had no office with the railroad in 1907.
The Cuamrman. Is the office which you fill with the Santa Fe
Railroad system about the same now as it was on May 24, 1907?
Mr. McInnis. What do you mean by office?
The CrairmMan. We have a letter here in the records of this com-Mittee
 in the Sixty-first Congress from the Atchison, Topeka &amp; Santa

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