The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-02
EMIGRATION
Associations in Europe for Send
ing Their Criminals and
Paupers to America.
Dolngs Of a Gang of Outlaws
In Calitornia-Ildlan
Matters.

| New YORK, July 2S.-The four congress
men who are investigating the immigra-
ton affairs of the country resumed their
labors this morning.
Paul Wolff, Washington CORES ondent
of the New York Stats Zeitung, was the
first witness called. He stated that some
three years ego he was informed that
there we're several societies in Germany,
and especially Bavaria, formed for the
purpose of sending discharged crimi-
mails to this country. Witness laid
his information before Assistant Secre-
tary of State Porter, and that gentleman
wrote to the American consul at Munich
on the subject, who replied in December,
1885, that there were no such societies.
Witness read extracts from reports of
one of these societies showing that in
1886 twenty-seven discharged convicts
we're sent to this country by these societies.
The report says that the worse the men are
and the larger the families they
have the better fitted they are TO
be sent to America. Witness
seys that these societies are not govern
ment affairs, but that Royal Councillor
Bauer is president and Prince Regent
Liethold is honorary president of this So
ciety. In 1886 their report is more eau
| tiously worded, but it shows that out of
$4,000 marks expended nearly half was
used to assist emigrants to come to this
country.
At this point Mayor Hewitt interrupted
the proceedings to shake hands withmem
bers of the committee and urge upon the
delegation TO speud Sunday with him at
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nation proceeded.
The witness had no statistics for the
year 1887, but said that he knew of cases
occurring this year. About two mouths
ago, he said, two men came over on a
steamer, but were sent back from Castle
Garden. The American consul at Munich
learned of their being sent and cabled
over TO the Castle Garden authorities.
Witness believes that they were sent back
to Hamburg, and from there to England,
from where they came over to
this country again under assumed
names. He said that these socie-
ties gave each of these assisted i'm
migrants tickets to whatever place in this
country they elect, and gives each 100
marks. Witness has made a careful study
Of the immigration question. He said
that the first forced emigration that
occurred 10 any extent was some twelve
or fifteen years ago, during the Fall River
strike, when great numbers of Swedes
we're brought over. The Swedes, he said,
are considered the cheapest labor of north
ern Europe. The labor market in this
country, he argues, is only overcrowded
because emigTants flock to the states.
The case of emigrants who have come
over here from Germany lately, he said,
is much better than in former years.
More farmers are coming over. They
come here with money and go west and
engage in agricultural pursuits. The
emigration of southern Europe is, in his
opinion, mostly of forced character and
induced by false representations. This
class comes largely from the rural
parts of Italy, and is forced to
remain in the larger cities because the
people have no money to go to
western points. Witness proposed sys-
TEN of examining all emigrants at the
point of embarkation, and furnishing
them with credentials, guaranteeing that
they don't come under any of the pro-
hibitory laws OF our country. Then, he
suggests, that no one should be allowed to
land here who is not provided with salts
factory credentials of this kind.
At II O'Clock the committee ran out of
witnesses.