Dillingham Commission

Examples of Dillingham Commission in the following topics:

• Nativism

  • Responding to these demands, opponents of the literacy test called for the establishment of an immigration commission to focus on immigration as a whole.
  • The United States Immigration Commission, also known as the Dillingham Commission, was created and tasked with studying immigration and its effect on the United States.
  • The findings of the commission further influenced immigration policy and upheld the concerns of the nativist movement.

• Toward Immigration Restriction

  • The debate continued, though, and opponents of a literacy test called for the establishment of an immigration commission to focus on immigration as a whole.
  • The United States Immigration Commission, also known as the Dillingham Commission, was established in 1907 as a bipartisan group tasked with studying immigration and its effects.

• Racial Friction

  • Responding to these demands, opponents of the literacy test called for the establishment of an immigration commission to focus on immigration as a whole.
  • The United States Immigration Commission, also known as the Dillingham Commission, was created and tasked with studying immigration and its effect on the United States.
  • The findings of the commission further influenced immigration policy and upheld the concerns of the nativist movement.

• Peace Overtures and the Evacuation of Philadelphia

  • In response to the defeat at Saratoga, Parliament dispatched the Carlisle Peace Commission to negotiate peace with Congress.
  • After the British defeat at Saratoga in October 1777, Parliament repealed offensive measures, such as the Tea Act and the Massachusetts Government Act, and sent a commission to seek a negotiated settlement with the Continental Congress.
  • The commission was empowered to offer the colonies the semblance of self-rule, or what later became Commonwealth status.
  • The commission was authorized to negotiate with the Continental Congress as a body, representing a change in official British government policy, which had previously been willing to treat only with individual colonies.
  • The commission was headed by the Earl of Carlisle and included William Eden, a British statesman and diplomat, and George Johnstone, former Governor of West Florida.

• Anti-Trust Laws

  • Wilson sought to encourage competition and curb trusts by using the Federal Trade Commission to enforce the Clayton Antitrust Act.
  • Wilson deviated from his presidential predecessors, who relied on lawsuits to break trusts and monopolies, by founding a new trustbusting approach through encouraging competition through the Federal Trade Commission.
  • The Federal Trade Commission effectively restricted unfair trade practices and enforced the 1914 Clayton Antitrust Act.

• The Coal Strike of 1902

  • This forced President Roosevelt to intervene with an arbitration commission that suspended the strike.
  • Roosevelt attempted to persuade the union to end the strike with a promise that he would create a commission to study the causes of the strike and propose a solution.
  • With the urging of Secretary of War, Elihu Root, Morgan came up with another compromise proposal that provided for arbitration, while giving the industry the right to deny that it was bargaining with the union by directing each employer and employees to communicate directly with the commission.
  • The commissioners then held hearings over the next three months, taking testimony from 558 witnesses, including 240 for the striking miners, 153 for nonunion mineworkers, 154 for the operators, and eleven called by the Commission itself .
  • In the end, however, the rhetoric of both sides made little difference to the Commission.

• Civilizing the City

  • Progressivism led to a shift in city governance from a mayor and an ineffective council to a stronger council or commission structure.
  • The system whereby a city was governed by a powerful mayor and council was replaced by the council-manager or the commission system.
  • The commission was essentially a multi-member, rather than single-member, executive.
  • Under the commission system, the executive would be composed of people who each controlled one area of government.

• Judicial Review and Marbury v. Madison

  • The Court acknowledged that Madison's refusal to send forth the commission was both illegal and remediable.
  • In order for the appointments to go into effect, however, the commissions had to be delivered to those appointed.
  • Without the commissions, the appointees were unable to assume their appointed offices.
  • In Jefferson's opinion, any commissions that were not delivered were void.
  • Jefferson was not pleased, but regardless, Marbury did not get his commission.

• The End of Reconstruction

  • Grant signed the Electoral Commission Act that set up a 15-member commission to settle the disputed 1876 election of 8 Republicans and 7 Democrats.
  • The Electoral Commission awarded Rutherford B.

• Progressive Government: City and State

  • The system whereby a city was governed by a powerful mayor and council was replaced by the council-manager, or the commission system.
  • Under the commission system, the executive would be composed of people who each controlled one area of government.
  • The commission was essentially a multi-member, rather than single-member, executive.