124 NATIONAL ORIGINS PROVISION OF IMMIGRATION LAW 
At a time when warfare was simple, as compared to its present complica- 
tions, any able-bodied man who owned a musket could be enrolled in the local 
militia. Enlistments for a temporary emergency—e. g., an “alarm” often 
lasted for a few days only until another emergency resulted in another enlist- 
ment. Misspelling of names by recruiting officers, when there was no systematic 
keeping of records, adds to the confusion. 
Discipline in any real sense was practically nonexistent. Technical deser- 
tion from the service mercly and not to the enemy was not considered g grave 
offense, and was going on ali the time. Most of those who so deserted from 
one colpany later enlisted in the militia of nearby townships, and would later 
desert again and then reenlist, how many under different names it is impossible 
to say. 
The Revolutionary War muster rolls present, therefore, insurmountable 
difficulties, as far as their use is concerned, as a premise for basing any con- 
clusion such as that drawn by Mr. O’Brien. 
This memorandum does not take up Mr. O’Brien’s work in its other phases, 
but in so far as A Hidden Phase of American History attempts by use of the 
Revolutionary War muster rolls to prove its point regarding the number of 
irish in this country at that time and in 1790 it is ineffectual. 
Mr. Trevor. This referred, Senator, to the statistics which were 
before Congress when the 1924 act was in preparation, and it also 
refers to the fact that I am supposed to be a person who turned in a 
lot of stuff to the notorious Lusk Committee. 
The fact of the matter is, Mr. Chairman, that I was appointed 
special deputy to the attorney general of the State of New York, 
and that I was requested by Senator Lusk to secure my discharge 
from the Army as early as possible in order to assist the joint legis- 
lative committee of the State of New York to organize a bureau to 
investigate radical and subversive movements within the State, which 
subsequently conducted an investigation of the radical situation in 
our State. I resigned that position after getting the work organized, 
and the committee subsequently published some voluminous docu- 
ments, in which the Senator can find my name. 
Senator Reep. You are the John B. Trevor who supplied statistics 
which were used by the Senate and House in 1924 when the national 
origins was adopted, were you not? 
Mr. Trevor. Yes, sir; unquestionably so. I gave them to Senator 
Lodge and to you after the introduction of your resolution in the 
Senate. 
Senator Reep. I notice that the article states that the statistics for 
this system are being supplied by John B. Trevor, referred to above. 
so that evidently the article means you? 
Mr. Trevor. Without a question. i 
Senator Reep. It also states here immediately after the reference 
to you that Secretary Davis is also of British birth, implying that 
you are, and that you say is untrue? 
Mr. Trevor. Absolutely untrue and demonstrably untrue. 
STATEMENT OF MRS. SHERMAN WALKER, VICE PRESIDENT GEN. 
ERAL DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION; ALSO 
CHATRMAN NATIONAL DEFENSE COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL, 
SOCIETY. WASHINGTON. D. C. 
Mrs. Warker. My name is Mrs. William Sherman Walker; vice 
president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution; 
also chairman of the national-defense committee, representing an or- 
ganization of 167,000 active members, comprising over 2,300 chapters 
in every section of the United States