Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-06-10
TOO MANY FOREIGNERS COMING.
Something Must be Done and That very
Soon-Dangers.

Something Must be Done ana lna1 soiJ
Soon-Dangers.
WASHINGTON, May 29.-"It is time this
government did something in the matter Q,
regulation of immigration" said General
Grosvenor, chairman of the commission
recently appointed by Secretary Foster to
investigate and report upon European I'M
migration to the United States. "Just
what is specifically expected OF the COM
MISSION" continued he, 81 do not know,
for we have not received our instructlons,
but do know that there is pressing necee-
sity for action on the part Of the authori-
ties. Never was any country the receptacle
of such stream of immigration as is pour
ing in en- us now; all our previous records
as a receptacle are being eclipsed. The IN,
crease, which has become so apparent OF
late, has it's origin principally in Southern
Italy, and, as most of the material now
arriving is REPRESENTATIVE, something
must be done to decrease the volume. The
labor organizations complain that sufhclent
employment cannot be secured for the PEG
pie already here, and there is a very gen.
eral demand for more rigid immigration
laws. The country is rapidly becoming
too strongly tainted with foreign DOORS
Take Wisconsin as an instance state
that is almost European province. Inc
people there demand the conduct OF the
schools in a foreign tongue, and give other
marked evidences Of their alienism. In
little while they will insist on having the
records of their legislature kept IN their
non-American language, and on top OF TINS
will come en- edeavor to have the courts
operate in the language, or languages,
native to other LANDS than ours. inns Is
all wrong. We cannot afford to welcome
those who will not be of u.s."
Assistant Secretary Nettleton has decid-
ed that Hollyer Pattison and wife, OF Swe-
den, who we're detained at New YORK as
polygamists, fall within the prohibited
class of migrants, and he therefore ordered
their return to the country from whence
they came at the expense OF the steam
ship company which brought them over.
This is the FIRST time that polygamists
have been debarred.
Mrs. Janna HInnicks German lmml-
grant, seventy-one years old, who arrived
in Baltimore on the goth inst. per steam
ship Munchen, was debarred, and ordered
returned nnder the terms OF the lmmlgra.
tion law which excludes all aliens afflicted
with loathsome or a dangerous contagious
disease, This immigrant is suffering az
eravated form of lupus, or tubercle Of the
skin, which the examining surgeon pro-
nounces both loathsome and dangerous.
Assistant Secretary Nettleton to-day
directed that the return of Mrs. Hinnicks
be deferred until the sailing of the next
steamer, June Sd, so that her friends in
this country may, if they choose. test the
case in the courts. Importance is attached
to the subject by the treasury authorities in
view of the danger of spreading in the
United States this loathsome disease, which
has hitherto been confined to Southern
Europe. A son eff Mrs. Hinnicks lives at
German Valley, Ill. and telegraphs that he
is willing to support his mother; but the
law is mandatory in this direction, leaving
no discretion in the matter to the depart
ment.