St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-20
Among the Aliens Landed
Daily at Castle Garden Are
Many Paupers.
There Is Also a Liberal
Sprinkling of Thieves and
Mupdepeps.
All These Should Be Denied
Admission to the United
States.
Those Who Pass Muster Should
Be Taxed Five Dollars a
Head.

tract labor and immigration to the mouse
to-day, as result of the investigation
of last summer and fail, proposes in its
first section to prohibit the admission
into the United States of any person
who is an idiot, insane, pauper, or
liable to become public charge, or who
has been legally convicted of a felony,
other infamous crime, or mlSdemeanor,
involving moralturpitude, or who is a
polygamist, anarchist or socialist, or
who is afflicted with any loathsome dis
case, or who has entered into contract
express or implied, oral or written, to
perform labor or service for any per-
son, firm, cOmpanyO or corporation IN the
United States, or doing business therein,
or whose passage is paid on a promise
of labor. 1t also provides that alien la
borers, other than those excepted by the
contract labor law, shall not be admit
ted to labor for limited time, With the
intention of returning. This section eX-
cepts professors in universities. and
ministers from its prohibition. The
second section declares it to be miSde-
meanor for such Objectionable persons
to come into the United States, or for
any person to assist them so to do; and
penalty of not exceeding $1,000, and
Imprisonment for three years, is pro-
Vided in such cases.
PROSECUTION MAY BE COMMENCED
within two years after the commission
of the offenSe and the alien may be re-
turned within two years to his country,
at the expense of the transportation
company or of the United States. Sec
ton limits the carriage OF incoming
foreign passengers to one paSsagenger
for every five tops burden of the ship,
al, III
age and counting two between one
and eight years of age as one passenger.
Violation of the provision is made pun
ishable by fine of not exceeding 500
for each passenger in excess OF
the allowance. The fourth section pro-
poses to levy tax of s. on
every alien coming into the United
States, which is to be paid to the col
lector at the nearest port by the trans
portation agent or master of the vessel.
Diplomatic representatives, consulS or
agents Of foreign governments are eX-
cepted. This section also creates per-
manent annual appropriation to defray
the expenses of the execution OF the act.
Section 5 requires az intended emigrant
to the United States to possess a certiti-
cate from a United States representa-
tive or consul near his residence, issued
after examination into his character,
without fee, but this certificate is not to
be conclusive evidence of the right OF
the person to
COME INTO THE UNITED STATES.
nor relieve masters OF vessels OF reSp0n-
Sibility. The sixth section requires the
masters of vessels and officers of rail-
road trains coming into the United
States to report to the collector of the
port, or his agent, the number, nation
oil nd nf
gers. The government officer is then
to board the vessel or train, inspect the
passengers and compare their certifi-
Gates. Passengers may be landed tenn
porarily, awaiting inspection, and the
only appeal from the collectors decis
ion shall be to the secretary Of the
treasury. In the seventh and eighth
sections, the secretary OF the treasury
is charged with the duty of SUI
pervising immigration; authorized
to make rules and contracts
and employ assistants, not to eX-
coed three inspectors at any one point,
at a salary between $1,000 and $4,000,
and to use United States property and
reservations. The last section vests full
jurisdiction in United States circuit and
district courts in all causes arising
under the act which is to take effect
July next. The report accompanying
the bill says that it was obvious to the
committee that it was almost impossible
to properly inspect the large number of
persons who arrived at Castle Garden,
New York, daily during the immigrant
season with the facilities afforded, and
the testimony taken puts it beyond
question that large numbers of persons
not
LAWFULLY ENTITLED TO LAND
rhn Tnf{ nd orn Ilyy rn
ceived at this port. In fact, one Of the
commissioners of immigration himself
testified that the local administration of
affairs at Castle Garden, by the mode
and system now followed, was perfect
farce. The investigation at Pittsburg,
Pa, elected the fact that over 500 i'm
migrant paupers and insane persons
were received at that city within the
last six years, the great majority of
whom were admitted through the port
of New York, and that many of these
pauper immigrants bore upon their
clothing the branded name of the work
inmates in Ireland. The investigation
at Boston and New York dis
closed much worse state of
affairs in this particular. There
are, says the report, thousands of alien
pauperS, insane persons and idiots an
nually landed in this country, who be-
come burden and charge upon the
states where they happen to gain a set
tlement, many of whom are aided and
assisted to immigrate by the officials of
the country whence they came. The
report says that as nOinspection is made
of immigrants along the border between
Canada and the United States large
numbers of alien pauperS, insane per-
lod
enter the United States by this way. the
number during six months being eSti-
mated at $4,000. In many instances I'M
migrants coming to Quebec have within
forty-eigbt hours after their arrival
been
APPLICANTS FOR SHELTER
in New York aims houses, and the
charitable institutions of Wayne
county, Mich, are filled to overfowing
from this cause. Criminals are shipped
to the United States by officers of for
eign governments, and they have per-
sisted in this course after having been
tinue it. Of the contract labor law, the
report says that it is easily evaded to a
large extent in spirit, while the letter
is usually observed. Chinese immi-
grafton was not investigated for lack OF
time. On the subject of immigration
generally the committee. after speaking
favorably of its benefits in the past
says: From the inquiry they have
made, they believe that the time has
now come to draw the line. to select
the good from the bad, and to sift the
wheat from the chaff. To any person
familiar with the results of the commit
tees investigation it must be apparent
that this country cannot properly assim
ilate the immigration now coming to oul
shores. Take the class of persons known
as anarchists, for instance. A few years
ago they principally lived in Germany
The officials of that empire determined
TO get rid of them. Their NEWSPAPERS