# Immigration Investigation/Proceedings

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Office of the Consul-General of the United States, Havana, December 28, 1893.
The following-named Senators and Bepresentatives were present:
Senators Proctor (chairman of the subcommittee), Dubois, Call, and Squire, and Senator Gibson from the Committee on Epidemic Diseases, Representatives Stump (chairman), Covert, Coburn, Wright.
Senator Proctor. The clerk may read the resolutions authorizing this investigation.
The resolutions were read, as follows:
In the Senate of the United States, July 16, 1892.
Resolved, That the Committee on Immigration be empowered to investigate the workings of the laws of the United States relative to immigration from foreign countries and the importation of contract labor into the United States, and of the laws and prevailing methods of naturalization since the year 1890, the investigation to be conducted at such times and places as said committee may deem proper, during the present session of the recess of Congress; and the committee is hereby authorized, as a full committee or through subcommittees thereof, to send for and examine persons, books, and papers, and to administer oaths to witnesses; the expenses of the investigation to be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate.
| Attest: | Anson G. McCook, Secretary. |
In the Senate of the United States, December 14, 1892.
Resolved, That the Committee on Immigration be authorized to continue during the present session the inquiries directed by resolutin of the Senate of July 16, 1892, with all the powers confered by said resolution.
| Attest: | Anson G. McCook, Secretary. |
At the meeting of the Committee on Immigration on Tuesday, December 20, the following resolution was adopted:
“Resolved, That a subcommittee be appointed by the chairman to visit Florida and inquire into the extent and character of the immigration, whether temporary or permanent, from the West Indies into Florida and the other States, and into the danger of importing infectious or epidemic diseases through such immigration, and that the subcommittee shall be authorized to visit such places as may be necessary, in their opinion, to become thoroughly informed on the subject, and to report to the full committee.”
Senators Proctor, Dubois, and Call were duly appointed the aforesaid subcommittee.
W. E. Chandler, Chairman.
Senator Proctor. Senator Squire has been added to that committee and Senator Gibson is here as a member of the Committee on Epidemic Diseases. The House committee is here by authority of a similar resolution.
Representative Stump. We are here under a resolution of the Fifty-second Congress, at the last session, which is similar to the one just read, and which constitutes this body a joint committee of the House and Senate.
Senator Call. It will be remembered that we had a meeting of the joint committee and agreed upon this action.
Representative Stump. The members of the House committee are Mr. Covert of New York, Mr. Wright of Pennsylvania, Mr. Coburn of Wisconsin, and its chairman, Mr. Stump of Maryland.
Senator Call. I propose that we ask the consul-general to give his testimony as to such facts as are within his knowledge as to the condition of the public health here and the danger of disease being transmitted into the United States.