St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-31
CAME HERE UNDER BOND.
Congressional Investigation Of the I'm
portation Of Foreign Labor.
NO LACK OF WITNESSES.
How Scotch Stone Cutters Were OBJ
tanned for the Texas State Capitol
Building.

oNNooANAAesk
tiers relating to immigration was about
to resume its session this morning, tel
egram was handed Chairman Ford an
nouncing the sudden death in Michigan
OF his sister, Miss Esther Ford. while on
her way to Duluth, MINI. When Mr..
Ford's fellow members heard of his
affiiction they proposed to adjourn, but
after private consultation with Mr..
Ford they acceded to his wish that they
should go on with the taking of testi-
mony, and the session began in few
minutes before II with Col. Oates in the
chair. Mr.. Ford will leave for Michigan
on the O'Clock train tonight.
The committee will take testimony to-
day and tomorrow and then adjourn
till next Monday. The telegram Mr..
Ford received was from his wife, who is
in Washington. 1t
CONTAINED THE BARE STATEMENT
that his sister, Miss Esther Ford, had
died suddenly from accidental poison
ing while on her way from Lansing to
meet her elder sister, Fannie, who is at
tending convention of charities organ
izations at Mackinac. The dispatch
was very meager and neither told when
the accident occurred nor any of the
particulars attending it. The first wit
ness called this morning was an Italian
named Nicola d'Allo, who came from
the province Of Chietl, arriving here
June % last by the steamship Cheribon.
In his native land the witness worked
as farm hand at 10 and Is cents day
and his meals. He also
OWNED A SMALL VINEYARD
worth 400 or 500 francs. He said that
several others came with him, and the
whole party were furnished tickets by
an agent named NicOlini Saraceni, who
came to their village and persuaded
them to come over here. Saraceni fur
nlshed them their passage upon their
agreeing to repay him $50 francs. He
sent them to man named Emo Ber-
nardlnl, 81 Mulberry street, who was to
give them work. Witness and his wife
signed contract to repay this $50
francs to Saraceni, who he said, was a
Storekeeper and we'll off. He landed
mere mere VIII any money. Bernardlni
kept him few days, and because he
had no money to pay the s'bosses" for
securing work, told him that he could
not get him anything. He has
NOT DONE DAYS WORK
since he landed, and is supported by
charity. In response to questions from
different members of the committee,
witness stated that three out of the
thirteen who came over with him had
received employment in the country.
where in the country? asked Con-
gresham Morrow.
lin Philadelphia, innocently replied
the witness.
Witness stated that, unless he paid
Saracenl the $50 francs by the last of
August, his vineyard would be attached.
He said that Saraceni had sent more
than 200 emigrants over here in the last
four years, charging each $50 francs for
advancing the passage money, and that
most of them
HAD PAID HIM BACK
that amount. The next witness was an
Italian from the same province, who had
been sent over by the same man. His
testimony did not differ much from that
OF the previous witness.
j. b. Dyer; secretary of the Granite
Cutters National union, testified at the
afternoon session that large number
OF stonecutters had been brought from
Scotland and to work for the Chicago syndi-
cate that is building the Texas state
capitol at Austin. Some of them re-
fused to go to Texas after reaching New
York, and learning that convict labor
was employed on the capitol, and that
this was the reason American stone
cutters did not go on the Job. The
men were brought over
ON THE ANCHOR LINE STEAMERS.
David Dawson, Scotch knife sharp
ener. testified that he came over with
the Scotch stonecutterS referred to by
Dyer. He refused to go to Texas, and
went to the Vermont quarrieS, where
he earns $3.50 week sharpening tools
for the quarrymen, but he will go back
to Scotland in the winter. About $50
men leave Aberdeen every year for
America to work in the quarries during
the summer. They go back in the fall.
James X. Anderson, stonecutter,
testified that he was one of a party of
eighty stonecutters who came over
under the Texas contract. He refused
to go to Austin, and is now working in
Vermont at good wages. He thinks he
WILL BECOME A CITIZEN.
5. M. LedOchOwski, who came here
from Poland thirteen years ago, and is
engaged in literary work, testified that
the peaSantry of Russian Poland are
terribly imposed upon by agents of the
steamship company, who induce thouS-
ands OF them by glowing misrepresenta-
lions of the labor market to flock to this
country, where many of them are
forced by necessity to work for IS cents
a day in the Pennsylvania mines. All
the witnesses agreed that the Castle
Garden officials neglect to enforce the
spirit of the law by which paupers or
persons who had come on false repre-
sensations could be sent back at the eX-
penSe of the steamship companies. Adj
journed.