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WASHINGTON, May L--seeretary Eos
ter has decided 10 stop the insux Of for
elgn raepers ard criminals notw1th-
stznding several defects Of the recent
~ passed immigration Law which were
Regarded a. making il practically mop
erative. Representative Owen. OF n
diana, got up the law and inserted a
provision that there shoui1 be a super
ntendent Of immigration 81 salary
Of - ,C09 year, bat while thus nAing
the amount Of the salary the act failed
TO specifically appropriate the - 90"
necessary 70 pay the salary. Attorney
General Miller has che Fefore raied that
the Office OF superintendent OF ina
migration cannot be filled. as
there il TO way Of paying his
salary. IL appeared To pat an end 10
enforcing the law, for the entire theory
of it was that the superintendent was
the special officer - execute the law.
Under these circumstances il has been
feared by the treasury department that
there could be no means of dammlng
up the tide of pauper and criminal in
migration which Is dowing into this
country.
Secretary Foster has concluded 10
take the Office Of superintendent of inn
migration upon his own shoulders by
having the terms of the law executed
without the intervention of this special
officer and his immigration inspectors.
Wednesday the secretary made his
first ruling under the law, and
it sets the precedent which viii be fol-
lowed in a general policy of eAclu-
sion. The Norddeutscher Lloyd Steam
ship Company recently landed Josef
piasechi in New York. lie was Grip
pie and SO deforrned that il was evil
dent that he could not earn iiveli-
hood. He had no money and no friends.
Secretary Foster thought this would
be good case to begin on, and he
therefore ruled that the penniless
cripple would have to be returned To
Germany at the expense OF the steam
ship company. unless the company fur
nishcd a $4,000 bond that Piasecki
would never become a public charge.
This was practically an absolute de-
cision of exclusion, for the company OF
course will not give such heavy bond
in the case OF n pauper cripple.
Assistant Secretary Spaulding, who
has special charge of these immigra-
ton subiect., said that the department
would presume that crippled or de-
formed immigrants without money
would be unable TO earn their own liv-
inc and would eventually become pub
lie charges. The bonds exacted from
the steamship company would be so
high that they would refuse to become
suretiesfor this pauper class and would
decline to bring them here when they
knew this country would not receive
them without the bond.
Assistant Secretary Nettleton has
gone to New York to make further ar
rangements to carry ont Secretary Fos-
ter's plan OF stopping immigration. AL
though the law is imperative SO far as
creating the superintendent of
immigration, it has many strin-
gent features which the secretary
will now execute. One of these
provides that no steamship or transpor-
tation company shall directly or
through agents, either by writing,
printing or oral representations, solicit
or encourage the immigration of any
| alien into the United States except
by the ordinary steamship adver-
tisements and circulars stating the
sailing of their vessels and terms
and facilities of transportation Immi-
grants who are excluded by the terms
of the law can be sent back at the ex-
pcnse of the steamship bringing them,
and the officers of the steamship are
deemed guilty of misdemeanor il they
decline to take back the excluded im
migrants. Secretary Fosters ruling in
the Piaseeki case puts in operation all
the features of the new law except that
| Of the annnin fmenf of q sIncriufeudent