The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-04-28
EUROPEAN POOR.
Foreign Governments Do Not OBJ
ject to Them Coming Here.
And the Poor Do Not Ask the Foreign Gov
srnments TO Insist on Their
Departure.

WASHINGTON, April 27.-The officials
or the state aud Treasury Departments
are aware of the arrival OF Irish paupeTs
at the ports of Boston and PHILADELPHIA
only through newspaper reports. No
official communication Of the fact has
been made'either by the cOnsu lar officers
at the ports of embaTkment or hy the
customs officials Of State charity com
mlssiOners at the ports where these
emmigrants arrived. 1t is celleVed by
Treasury officers that the Emigration SO.
ciety conducted by the British Govern
ment Will deny that the persons sent by
IT to this country are paupeF5 in the in
ternatiOnal sense of the word. The So
ciety not only pays the passage money,
but supplies each immigrant with a
small sum of cash upon his arrival. .,
| IL IL patent that within a short time
this money will be expended, ana a
large number OF the immigrants viii
become public charges. Mr.. Lyman,
.hief OF the navigation division Of the
Treasury, who Is an expert ON the sub
jcct of Immigration, says that the Gov
lrfnLnent Is pOWeTless to prevent the
landing of this class sOiimmigrants. OF The
ACT to regulate Immigration, approved
August 3, Mr. Lyman says, Is practically
worthless for thepprpOse of successfully
dealing with theNpfesent troubles NI|l
7 THE GOVERNMENT POLICY.
THE law provides" said Mr.. Lyman
itO-dHy "that under certain clfcum-
stances paupeTs. criminals. etc, shall
not,be allowed to land. y How can the
landing of these persons be prpVentedP ?
The Treasury cannot station. gangs Of
Ulcers, at tile docks to prevent these
paiipsis from comm Rash6re. If the law
provided that the master or owner OF
any vessel landing paUpers. cOnvicts,
lunaties, etc, should pay a'fee of $50 for
zach person so landed there would be no
ditiiculty. The Government could en-
IOrce the law aud none but decent immi-
grants would be bTOughtIO this country.
The GOveTDment dOer1nO wish TO drive
back poor ylmmtgrantsw who can and will
work, and It's policy is to give the de-
sarylng class IittLe'tiei p and encOurag-
tneht. The Present Immigration law
was hurried through rOefia6Is a fund to
De raised for tue care Of immigrants.
II was loosely drawn and Is neL. effective
IN ifB OperatiOns.n co & sE5- pea,
It's thought probable thae the ad
ministratiOn will take official eOgnfzauce
bf The recent expOrtatlOnD by the Britiah
GOYernment of destitute Irish, provided
10 is proved that any c0nsideTabAe mum
per Vt them require aid. 500
THR SWISS COMPLAINTS. -
During the year 1880 and 1881 the
state Department had occasion fire.
Auently 70, ,cOInp1atn)tO the GOVernment
bfSwitZerland OF the action of certain
eOmmunetsinisen sendthg vagrants, zcrimi-
hals and an objectionable lass of people
Into this eeuntIy.' The c0mmunes paid
the EXPENSES of these iqImlgran Is, hut
wherever tie. United. States could de
tect the men they were promptly shipped
back to their homes. Nicholas Fish,
who i'll 1881 was United States Minister
at Ber NO. tobk ial war rIn 1 Interest jim the
Subject of foreign Immigration, and he
labOred zealOusIy to prevent the Swiss
huthOrllies trOBlse4dlng theiEWOFt thleks
people to this country.
! Mr.. Fish estimated, from carefully
prepared statistics. that 10 1870 the ppO-
pie OF the United States cared for 1851
foreign helpless or ObpOXiOuST TpeTsOns,T
pf $50 per .ahnum each, was paid 49,
e49 l50I This burd properly beldnged
10 foreign Governments. Converted
Into capital at the present rate of Gov
trnmenL securities" said MI. Fish in a
let or to the edepartmentsBais REPRESENTS
debt of $lUO,OOO,OOO, which Is due to
PbjectiOnablen immlgratiOns without
counting the inere eased cost OF police
supervision and proceeding, etc." The
pIatAoyANbrOl toilo I6llpuo Vi lOOO Will uu-
houbtedly show a largely increased
charge on this account.
CTvILisERVIcE RULES. q 7lslI
< Judge ThOman said Tonight that the
rules drawn upDy the Civil Service Com
mission differed somewhat, but not
materially, from those employed by the
former COmmission. Until they are laid
before the President and Cabinet he
WOuld saw. nothing further, reCardinO
them, except that m his opinion thsy
would fairly Test the Qualifications of
those eOmpetiDg g for office. On being in
teTrOgated bas~ 10 certalnl statements
credited TO him. that the wholesale dis,
change of Government employees On the |
of anew .admlnlstTatiOn was
DOT forbidden by law, he asserted that |
v nat he said was that the Civil S=rylce
law had nothing TO do with removals; \
That power 10 dismiss from office was |
lOtaDridged by the bill, but that all ap- |
continents to office must be made from |
among those found competent without |
pkaFp " paIty.Tv -re eepsl Erol