New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-06-28
ASSISTED IRISH IMMIGRANTS.
AN ORDER FROM SECRETARY FoLGER.

AN ORDER tROh oEShElAhA fOl]OED-
COOPERATION WITH THE COMMISSIONERS URGED
MR. STARR INDIGNANT AT THE ANCHOR LINE
Retween one and two hundred assisted
Irish immigrants are stil detained ut Castle Garden
awaiting the decison OF Collector Robertson az TO
whether they shall be returned to Europe The Com
missioners OF Emigration were engaged In collecting
further information yesterday as TO the Destitute cond
ton OF these people, and VIII decide at meeting TO-
dav whether or not they will recommend that they be
returned.
collector Robertson yesterday received the following
from the Secretary Of the Treasury rea-
five To the "asssted imml grants the Furnesss;
IL was nferable from the report OF the commits
soners that the immigrants spoken Of IN your telegram
OF to-day. within the paryiew OF section - ACT Oh
xSsD The report conclusion as wen as
or instead Of, facts Refer the case osek
are Unable 20 care fot themselves without becoming
public charge RI the Commissioners report airlna-
ye Ssm ap re end II negatively or they dc me to
report their conclusions let the immigrants depare
The Collector said that he would await the report Of
the Commissioners as whether In the language OF the
law there Is among the immigrants In question any
convict lunatic IDIOT any person unable TO take
care OF himself or herself without becoming pubic
charge"
A PROTEST FROM THE ANCHOR LINE
The following letter received from the Anchor
steamship Line by the Commissioners OF Emigration
yesterday:
We are in formed by John Mccarthy that You will not
allow hs father and mother passengers by Furnessa TO
leave Castle Garden and that you also refuse to deliver
sterling preventing them leaving for their destns
ton. which Is Holyoke, Mass. We wln thereIore %
passengers have been and are detaiued and request
that they be liberated az once Mr. " no mas
and we are at loss 10 explain to him why his friends
nave been subjected TO such Inconvenience ana annoy
ance
Co,,missoner starr said in reference to the letter
" II /. an insulting document, but such as might DO ex-
neeted from line thai threatened to ignore tho Com
and land their passengers at any point they
chose the waterfront They will Ind fthey attempt
speh thing that there alaw which specifics that mm
grants shall be landed fucn place may designate
Moreover the Collector has said thath any company
attempts TO violate tho In any such way, no will
withhold lis elearances the law provides aud with
ont which les vessels cannot leave port 1t is all very
well TO say that people who were brought here on
he Furnessia Anchora span and W no are assisted
here by the British Government are ablebodisd aud
the assertion that they viii not become public charge
HSg a w a Or or e. 10 for
nnafterf Who say how long IL Will before these
PEOPLE can SSsn aaans Of the prevent this
class becoming public charges and the people shoua
1a6n McCarty afterward agreed with the Commission
ers that he and his brothers aud sister In Holyoxe
sec ne aid that It was his Intention TO send
his parents long time ago, but learning That the
British Government was giving assistance ne
Thought he would let them come In that way
and save his money. Commissioner Tantor further
tho and found that the MeCarthys hsd
never been in the workhousc, but had been sns
ported by their children for several Being suc;
peetsD they were SIMPLY held for examination, ahd
were then permitted 10 leave Castle Garden.
Catharfne Donovan, former resident OF county
Kerry and a friend OF Mary sullivan, who arrived on
the Fumessia with three children, made an affidavit
that abe had been deputed by Mrs suiltvans two
daughters at Albany 10 take her there She said that
the were not only able and willing to support
In the factories at Cohoes The aud her three
children were then permitted 70 20 TO Albany.
ACTION OF THE ALDERMEN.
At the meeting Of the Board OF Aldermen yesterday
Mr. shelby offered preamble and resolutions with
reference the pauper immigrants sent here from Tree
land The preamble rectes tho distress that has ex-
listed in Ireland for many years and the result of unjust
and unsympatheto forced them by the Govern
mont OF England and says that out OF 100000 acres
of tabe land In Ireland Only 100000 are tilied'
that many inhabitants OF Ireland are now ON the
verge of starvation; that Germany, with popu-
ton OF 2l3 20 the square mile, passes
laws to prevent the people emgratng, while the
British Government approprates %oO0,OOV vAaay
away the people OF lr0and whose P0pulaton sue ris
already reduced TO 182 per square mile tnat Tue 10
Of Ireland now send 4OO00000 per year In taxes ~
England that the 90 100000 contributed BY ths conn
try to Ireland IL Inadequate 20 ameilOrate tho
existing there; and that 1t Is the supreme uuy
| Government TO preserve the Ives anu aus'A'