The New York herald., 1879-12-18
IMMIGRATION.

MIrTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS IN FAVOR OF
LEGISLATION TO REGULATE IMMIGRATION
WHAT HAS BEEN DONE IN THE PAST AND
WHAT IS PROPOSED FOR THE FUTURE.
WAsHINoToN. Dec. II. 1879.
The Committee on Foreign Affairs have sent in
report. accompanying bill which provides for the
better protection OF immigrants. that will command
considerable attention. 1t submitted to the
House by Mr.. Cox. of New York. The committee
claim there is urgent necessity for Congressional
legislation for immigrants and the Of such
among them as may become sick or disabled. After
reciting the law and custom prevailing from lSA7 to
1876 whereby owners Of vessels were supposed to
the State any charge or expense on
account of immigrants. and the precautions taken
at Castle Garden to guard against 'the frauds and
depredations Of emigrant runners and other ma
rauders who combined to defraud and pillage the
simple and unsuspicious strangers of whom the
great mass of immigration to this country has been
chiefly composed" the following is given the
naOdus operandi at Castle Garden:-
After examination Of their luggage on shipboard
by the customs officers, the immigrants trans
ferred to this landing depot where they received
ters kept for the purpose all necessary particulars
for their future identification. The names of such
have money. letters or friends awaiting them
called out and they are put into immediate possess
sion of their property committed to their
friends. whose credentials have first been prop
erly Scrutinized. Such desire can tnd clerks at
hand to write letters Tor them any European Ian
guage and telegraph operator within the depot to
forward dispatches. Here. also, the main trunk
lines Of railway have offices. at which the imini-
grant buy tickets and have his luggage weighed
and checked. Brokers are admitted tundcr restric-
tons which make fraud impossible) to exchange the
foreign coin or paper OF immigrants. restaurant
supplies them with plain food at moderate prices.
physician ia in attendance for the sick: tenn
porary is hospital ready to receive them until they
be conveyed to Wards Island those in search OF
employment are furnished it at the labor bureau
connected with the establishment. Such desire
to start at for their destination sent to the
railway or steamboat while any who may choose to
house keepers admitted to the depot. whose
charges are regulated under special IL
constant and rigid supervision by the commission.
These services are rendered without any fee
charge whstever to the IMMIGRANT. The experience
of the Commissioners, related to Congress In
their memorial demonstrated the fact at early
day that large percentage Of the immigrants would.
years. become chargeable to them as sick and dis
essed. or as unable to support themselves.
NEW YoRK's BURDEN.
The report then states that many immigrants
after having left New York and meeting with ad-
verses. were returned to that State and became
charge on the Commissioners Of Emigration, and
were only cared for in the estimabe institutions
on Wards Island erected aud carried by the Com
mssion). but many. on request. have been returned
at its expense to their native land The report con-
tinues:-
Tn rumerous c.s.s immicrants aastined for otb.r
States who have arrived here sick. have been
cured IN the 1ospitais OF the commission and
o.sn srts snS communitias 90 th;s cou~trv With
their money, capital and labor unimpared. Many
Nav YORK city Without funds to reach their
destination inland and the cost OF their rranspora
E,ar sica The tida of irnmigraf,on hrst sat .rora
toward tb. limited States il has flowed nrncinaiyy
r~,,,s who c.ma 70 the IJpited States s,nca IaI7
Z 100 an or ea-fourtbs ~ tha whole nnmhar
landed at the port of New York. OF the immense
E,,rnnean i'm n,igrnton the benefits ara shared hv
MANI of the old md bv ali the new States whiIe
the disadyantarcs have been principally borne by
those on the Atlantic To the South and West for
th rost mart 90 the strong and vigoron,
Who give their enerries 10 the Agricultural
~. srhs rnnrer xvssSsr nd loss enternrs,ng rc,nsr
% cn, Nv tna;r "rt n arr Wstnan ,en
bnrden is minsnt from the ndolence Of
class and whatever danger is threatened from their
the ssanort STATES encounter The
Snrsncert oy,erations oY tLe E,niyratiop Commute
snn in the nrotection it has extended the informs
to-, ~ has Unmarried ana the sunnort Il has Afforded
20 on im,m,isr.,ts became nv yarions maans and
throngh various channels we'll known many wears
ago in Europe It is the service operations and ex
n other States that tho hill reported herewith seek
70 secure bv an inn miurant fund. and machinery to
n. oJm;n;stsred nv Federal o1icers LEGALLY ana cop
,;tm,;nrarw orgar;,ed and resnons;hls for th.
u'arr;s;nr os ,n;s cIaSs ~ sora;ap con,mer.a 'A'
euPo1'i''o ~ ~ ~ " 0'e" ''
TAXING THE FEW FOR THE MANY
After referring the decision of the United States
srrrar,. Court ~rb,ch In 1915 dac,.red t,a t,v on
s"Pi' o" ~ " ' ~ " w
forcing the oonu ana heao tax UNCONSTITUTIONAL and
void the report says:-
rh,s dsc,.;on aesct. NOT o,,v tho st.ta ~ Ns,v
yorI but ali othar -, st.ts and thrnws the;r
ort wia onen II iss vss tn.rr nnnrotsctaa a,.;nst
r. sn,rndrction anI snb;acts ,hn,r ,,aon,a % th.
s.u nsa We t ,,n,nrant no ., .hn t;s ~ d;sa,' ro
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befors thew leave the state in which thew
% oo.oie .r.s-.s ha.,ssa ,,n., 49, ..rss
a gSrhiic cbaraa T, removss tron, the iptar;or
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sUno ss t ~ - d,.s VI ~ r;ra, % TIa a,r :. h,nn 49,; @
sne a, pv.S ps y. s, $3.50 .;tS % q, .h ;n, -, ~ % ~. -
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49, ~ ro,, ha, swant aw.S hr tnis dac;s;nn ava
o ~ ~ a~;.t Tha ors,r. .o;,r.rv 40 tIarafora
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