The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-07-21
THE EnTGRAHT OUTRAGEs.

The movement on the part OF the
New York Tammany leaders, by which |
they have secured entire control OF the |
immiRration traffic, demands the earn |
est attention of honest people every
where. and particularly ct the West,
Whittier most of the enigtAnts desire to |
come. II 10 well known that four-hfths
of the strangers that land It Castle Gar
den are bound for points West and
South. Notwithstanding this the city
and State governments of New York
assume immediate and complete charge
of them, and treat them, to ell intents
and purposes, g. If they were setting
foot upon the territory Of an indepen-
dent and detached sovereignty. A tax
They are plundered Of another tax I'M
der plea of hospital care, and third is
demanded for guiding them to the rail-
road lines which are to take them to
their various destinations. These
three levies, for convenience sake, are
Jumped into one charge Of two dollars
and half. In return for this expendi-
ture the emigrants get literally nothing.
| Not q tenth Of them need hospital treat
ment, and those who are shipped for
ward by rail are herded into the flthy,
iny-ventilated cars Of some railroad
| that has paid q royalty for the oppor:
Il
| but little less than first class passengers
thew are packed into cars with accom-
modations for less than two-thirde of
L the number apportioned to them. The
i emiQrant trains are often obliged to lay
over on side tracks for the passage Of
freight cars, and to give the right OF
Way TO all kinds of traffic. In several
instances emiRrants have been six days
in making their way from New York TO
Chicago.
ty that the maximum cost OF giving
this kind care to emigrants at Castle
Garden, including the hospital estab'
Iishment ct Wards Island, where the
; expenditures are, like all Tammany ex-
penditures, extravagant, is just one dol
Tar and thiFty-three cents. This, how
ever, Is but 9 moiety of what Tammany
/, makes ont of the inhuman traffic. 1t IL
censes boarding house keepers. to extor
Il money from the strangers that throns
within our gates, and obliges the ba
= kers and milkmen to pay royalty FOL
: the privilege of feeding them befor'
they are permitted to go to the BOARD
7 privileged railways buy their right Il
f do SO, and even the transporting of tn
. | sick to the hospital, which the emf
grants pay Q tax to support, 10 made
Source of revenue. The new Board O
Conmisioners-the one that has recent
= lv been appointed to succeed com
q | paratively honest set Of mems COM
n posed of persons who are themselVe
largely interested in the various raml
- ficstions of the plundering schemes
q Two of them are the two who talke
n the loudest at the Indianapolis ConveI
Il ton called last year to redress the EN-
my nFnfAatR
against any change In the manner @
treating the new corners, and secuted
n all propositions looking towards n
= form.
:. Happily, however, Hon. G. A. Finl
elnbur0, our representative from Il
ID Second district, has introduced bi
N in Congress, which, if it succeeds, wi
4. have the same effect upon the Tammi
I. ny schemes of plumber, as his ready W
and abe arguments did In tho 1no1al
.. apolis Convention upon the two Tan
10 many henchmen who have since, az
il reward for their services, been MAJ
A Emigrant Commissioners. The pr
visions of this bill are doubtless fsmi
liar to our readers as reference b
LII been made to It from time to time
Oh our Waghington correspondent. II r
nj moves the whole emigrant busine
from the hands of the New York or a
other State government, and places
'st under Federal jurisdiction. Static
are to DO established where they a
deemed necessary for the reception
US emigrants, and for honestly execut
services, which win protect the trav'
ers to the extreme limit of their joU
AL ney, the bare cost only is to be charge
en- This bill was introduced in the prese
No Congress by Mr.. Finkelnburg, and "
~ referred to the committee on COmmerV
IL It is likely to be reported upon, we a
;ty told, early in the next session, WHIT
,Iy from present indications, it will pass
he . large majority. It's failure will
another triumph for Tammany corfu
'yS tion HSasOaE7-S Democrat