The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-01-14
!. IMMIGRATYoN 40 THE SOUTH.

New Orleans on the 1SC OF March IaeG, ap-
pointed Governor Garland, of Arkansas,
Judge Kennard of Louisiana, and ex-Gov-
erner Anderson, formerly of Ohio and now
of Kentucky, q special committee to pre-
pare an address to the Legislature
of the various States included in that
geographical division. After detailing the
advantages to be derived from immigration
and giving q description of the Castle
Garden System," the committee recon-
mend the establishment of similar depot
of immigration at New Orleans, and pro-
coed to say:
The incorporation will necessarily have
been made under the laws of the State of
Louisiana. Each State interested will have
been accorded due representation in the
board of direction and as the special cir
cumstances of particular States, or the per-
sonal views of their delegations in the con-
ventions, seem to have induced preferences
for diverse methods of selections of repre-
sentatives in the board, the method OF such
selection will probably have been left to the
discretion of each State of itself. we may
safely assume that in the case of most OF
the States, the appointments to director
ship will have been made by the executive,
and that the corporation will thus have
received the official recognition of the State
government.
In order, then, to meet the initial expen-
ses of the organization, it is proposed that
there be formal legislative recognition
by each State of the company thus created
in such wise as to give it quasi official
character, and that an annual appropriation
of money be made toward the defrayment
of its expenses until such time as it shall
have become self supporting, The amount
for which each State respectively shall be
call Il IF 70 II iFpo
determined, in order that a due proportion
may be preserved between the resources
and the quota of each State; and wedo not
know how this can be better OF, indeed,
otherwise done than by consultation and
agreement of the representatives of several
States in the board of direction of the COM
pany. If the plan adopted by the conven-
ton shall have been duly carried into ef-
feet by its standing committee, this consul
tation will have been held, and it's results
will have been communicated to your
honorable bodies cOncurrentiy with the
receipt, by you, of this circular. The details
of the legislation to the end proposed, it is
not for us to suggest. Without doubt our
organization will have provided such safe
guards respecting the due and effective dis
position of the funds appropriated, and such
facilities for examination and publication OF
their accounts as will give ample assurance
that the money will be judiciously and
OF course, each State, through it's repre-
sentative in the board of government, will
have its share in the administration OF the
affairs OF the company, aud In directing
the expenditure of its funds. The ends of
that administrator will be those pointed
out in what we have already said-the ad :
vertisement, in Europe and elsewhere, OF
the inducements offered to the immigrant
by the States of the Mississippi Valley, and
the superior facilities of the Mississippi
river route the establishments of emf
grant depots at desirable points in Europe /;
the inducemeut of capitalists to establish
lines OF emigrant vessels between the Eu-
ropesn ports and that of New Orleans the
establishment at the last named place of
an emigrant depot, with all it's machinery
for the direction and protection of the i'm :
migrant; in short, whatever concerns the
common interests, in these regards, OF all
the States interested. If, under the recent
decisions of the Supreme Court of the
United States, in the "immigration cases, u
it should prove that the imposition of a
Communication tax, upon the Castle Garoen
| plan, is inconsistent with the provisions oil
the Constitution, il is not, in our opinion,
| to be doubted that the interest of owners
| of lines of emigrSnt vessels will induce
them voluntarily to contribute the trlhine
| tax proposed, in consideration of the ad'
vantages to be derived by them from the
establishment of our depot at New Orleans
| Inc DETAILS OF 6uCn an uhuoCstOuuauS Will
| the ship owners will readily suggest them
selves, aud remain, of course, tor future al
justment.
OF the special measures to he taken by
| each State TO provide it's agents In Europe
or at the New Orleans depot, whose pro
vince will be the persuasion of the immi
grant to see k his home within her partlcu
| lar boundaries, to diffuse by publication
the knowledge of the resources ofthe State
to provide it's own special depot and hos
pitfalls upon its soil, ETC., 1t is not for US tS
advise you.
The time is ripe for this combined effor
on the part of the States of our great val
ley. Its probable advantages are oeyonC
dispute. A wise craftsmanship and fa
sighted economy call US to act with liberal
ity now. If the thing be- good, it is weak
ness and folly to defer or hesitate at i'm
mediate action and the prompt anc
hearty official responses to the call for the
convention, and the cordial unanimity o
it's action, establish us in the belief that III
purposes aud methods will elicit the
| annroYaI of the nnHarnmenta of all ths