Editing Lillian Russell (section)

===Fact-finding mission and death===
In 1922, Russell undertook a fact-finding mission to Europe on behalf of President [[Warren Harding]]. The mission was to investigate the increase in immigration. She recommended a five-year moratorium on immigration and a minimum of 21 years residency before making application for naturalization.<ref name=Immigrant>"Lillian Russell Would Bar Aliens", ''The New York Times'', March 22, 1922, p. 4</ref> Russell stated: "only the useless in the reconstruction of their countries are seeking to come to the United States ... the immigration of recent years has been from that class of people which arrests rather than aids, the development of any nation".<ref name=Immigrant/> Her findings were instrumental in developing the content of the [[Immigration Act of 1924]],<ref name=Documentary/> which greatly restricted immigration of southern and eastern Europeans and banned the immigration of Asians.<ref>[https://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/ImmigrationAct "The Immigration Act of 1924 (The Johnson-Reed Act)"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131101180531/http://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/ImmigrationAct |date=November 1, 2013 }}, U.S Department of State Office of the Historian, accessed March 29, 2016</ref>

Russell suffered apparently minor injuries on the return trip, which, however, led to complications, and she died after ten days of illness at her home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.<ref name=NYTobit/> Thousands of people lined the route of her [[military funeral]],<ref>[http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1922-06-08/ed-1/seq-2 "Lillian Russell Laid at Rest with Military Honors"], ''The Evening World'', June 8, 1922, p. 2</ref> attended by many actors and politicians; President Harding sent a wreath that was set atop her casket. She is interred in her family's private mausoleum in the [[Allegheny Cemetery]] in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.<ref>"Lillian Russell Buried Today", ''The Clinton Advertiser'', June 8, 1922.</ref>
[[File:Mr and Mrs A P Moore.png|left|thumb|Russell and Moore, just before her fact-finding mission to Europe in 1922]]