Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-20
Exhaustive Committee Re-
port on immigration.
NO USE FOR THE ANARCHISTS.
Scathing DenunciatiOn of the Low
Habits and Morals Of the I'm
ported Coal Miner.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD


any idiot, insane pauper or any
one liable to become public
charge, or who had been legally
convicted Of felony or other infamous
crime or msdemeanor, involving moral
turpitude, or who is o polygamist, An
archist or Socialist, or afflicted with any
loathsome disease, or has entered into
contract, expressed or implied, oral or
written, TO perform labor or service for
any person, firm, company or corpora
ton in the United States or any State
therein, whose passage was paid on
promise OF labor.
1t also provides that alien laborers,
other than those excepted by the con-
tract labor law, shall not be admitted to
labor for limited time with the inten-
ton of returning. The section excepts
professors in universities and ministers.
1t proposes to levy a tax Of 50 on every
alien coming into the United States, to
be paid by the transportion agent. The
Secretary of the Treasury is charged
with the duty of supervising immigra-
tion, and vests full jurisdiction in the
United States District and Circuit Courts
in all cases arising under the act, which
takes effect July 1st.
The report accompanying the bill de-
tails the investigations of the committee
at various points and the conclusions
reached. Among other things the re-
port says that as no inspection is made
OF immigrants along the border between
Canada and the United States, large
number of alien padpers, insane persons
and others not lawfully entitled to
enter or come into the United States
enter by this way, the number during
six months beng estimated at $4,000.
Criminals are shipped to the United
States by the officials of foreign govern
ments and they persist in this course
after having been requested by our gov
ernment to discontinue it. OF the con-
tract labor law, the report says it is
easily evaded to large extent in spirit
while the letter is usually observed.
Chinese immigration was not investi-
gated 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 the time has
now come to draw the line, to select the
good from the bad and to sift the wheat
from the chaf. To any person familiar
with the results Of the committees in
vestigaton it must be apparent that this
country cannot properly assimilate the
immigration now coming to our shores.
The report is severe on the Anarch-
ist agitators. 1t says in part: "These
persons do not come here to uphold and
maintain our form of government. Their
object and purpose is to destroy and tear
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tempt which does not meet with their
bedience to it is perfectly justifable.
the committee ought to be rigidly ex-
cluded from entering the country. Gen
orally speaking, the class of immigrants
who have lately been imported and en-
ployed in the coal regions of this coun-
try, are not such, in the opinion of the
committee, as would make desirable in
habitants Of the United States. They
are OF very low order of intelligence.
They do not come here with the inten-
tion of becoming citizens, their whole
purpose being to accumulate by parsi-
monious, rigid and unhealthy economy,
sums of money and then return to
their native land. They live in miserable
sE eds like beasts, the food they eat is go
meagre, scant, unwholesome and revolt
ing that it would nauseate and disgust an
American workman, and he would find it
difficult to sustain life upon it. Their
habits are vicious, their customs are dis
gusting and the effects of their presence
here upon our society is to be deplored.
They have not the influences, as we un-
derstand them, of home they do not
know what the word means, and in the
opinion of the committee, no amount of
effort would improve the moral standing
of this class OF immigration. They have
been brought heIe in such numbers and
have been employed at such low wages
that it has resulted in their replacing the
American citizens who formerly per-
formed this class of labor until now there
are comparatively few Americans en-
gagged in mining coal in Pennsylvania.
The report condemns the practice
which has prevailed among certain for
eigners, resident in this country, of im-
porting men for the purpose of keeping
them in state of almost abject slavery.
In conclusion the committee says that
certainly the effect of the present unre-
stricted system of immigration. as appli-
cable to the conditions under considera-
ton, upon the industrial situation of this
country, has been very bad, and the
committee believes the time has come
when the immigration tax should be
more effectively regulated; that persons
who immigrate to the United States
should at least be composed of those
who in good faith desire to become it's
be citizens and are worthy to such.
Spinola does not agree with the ma
ljority. In a minority report he states
that he is opposed to head tax of more
than 81 for each immigrant. He says
the minority is prepared to 60 to any
length in the advocacy of a proper
measure in order to shut out paupers,
lunatics, idiots, cripples and thieves, as
we'll as evil-doers who come here to prac-
tice their wickedness and fill our jails
and prisons, but declares his unqualified
opposition to the passage of any law that
will in any way check or stop the influx
of honest immigration.
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| The Too Ready Revolver.
HELENA, Mont, January 19.-At Ro-
dersburg, yesterday, Robert Hossfeldt,
a prominent rancher of Jefferson county,
was shot and killed nv John p Free-