St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-27
SENDING US PkUPERS
%.
Report on Character Of Emil
grafton to the United
States.
Large Numbers of Homeless
Children Assisted Over
the Sea.
Queen Victoria Patron of a
Society Which Sends Grim
inals to Us.
Sham Inspection of Emigrants
by Steamship Companies
at Liverpool.


day or two there will be published
under order of congress the reports of
the commissioners sent to Europe last
year by the treasury department to i'll
vestigate the extent and origin of emf
grafton TO the United States. With the
appendix containing the laws of Eu-
ropean governments governing the emf
grafton from their countries and the
reports from the United States conSulS
on the subject, furnished by the state
department. they will make volume
of about 500 pages. There is consider
able inquiry at the departments for the
documents, and the government print
ing office is crowding its publication.
The commissioners sent out by the
secretary of the treasury are j. X.
Webber, commissioner of immigration
at New York; j. r. Cross, of Minnesota;
}. Walter Kepster, of Wisconsin; JO-
seph PowderIy. of Pennsylvania. and
Ii. j. SchuItis, of the District of Colum-
bia. The conclusions shown by Messrs.
Weber and Kepster were made public
the time their report reached the de-
partment. The report of the others have
Division of Territory
to be covered Messrs. Webber and KEEP
Ster were assigned to Northern France,
Holland, Belgium, Germany, Russia,
Austria ana Hungary, and Messrs. Pow
derby, Cross and Schultis to Great Brit
ain, Southern France, Switzerland and
Italy. They did not, however, strictly
cOnilne themselves to these limits. AS
stated, Messrs. Weber and Kepster
made united report, but the other
three made separate reports, all agree
ing in the main facts and conclusions.
MIR. Shultis gives the following as COW
| cred by report:
First-The efforts of emigration aid
| societies, public and private, in aiding
| criminals and paupers 10 ernigrate.
Second-Speed and profits of alien
| steamship companies.
| Third-The contract labor importers,
| who induce immigration for the sake of
| cheap labor.
AS the result of his investigation Mr..
| Schultis found that large numbers of
homeless children of both sexes under
| sixteen years of age were being shipped
| to the United States from Liverpool
| They 90 from "homeS," one of which
has forty-elght branches. A society in
| aid of
Discharged Prisoners,
of which Queen Victoria is patron, is
cited as type of those engaged in send
| ing the criminal classes to America. A
list of siXty-nine Others is given in the
report. To Mr.. Schultis, as a member
| of the American conference of charities
and correction. Col. II. Buchanan. secre-
tary of the royal society aforesaid, told
| how nicely one of his discharged priS-
onerS got along in North Carolina. The
records of the postoffices show the so.
| clety 10 send numbers of money orders
to these discharged emigrant prisoners.
| AS bearing upon the third cause OF
emigration from Europe MIR. Schultis
furnishes case of two persons who ad.
| mt that they were inmates of poor
| houses in England, and that their pas
| SageS to America were prepaid by one
| Of the societies.
II visited MIR. Hetherington." says
Mr.. SchultiS. sat his office in the rail-
| way station and was informed that he
| had nothing to say relative to matters
| pertaining to the transportation of emf
| grants; that the company never gave
| information 10 outsiders on any subject
| questioned an employee about the rail
way station, who admitted that Mr..
| HeiherngtOn frequently sent contract
laborers to one ODell, whose Office was
| III West FOrty-seventh street, New
York city. but L could learn nothing
definite as to names OF occupations
Mr.. SchultiS' interesting and most
valuable information on the subject was
| obtained by questioning, and probably
leads bin to offer it, as he says:
How 1t rs Worked
son July %, disguised as destitute
alien pauper, l repaired to No. ID Ar
| lingtOn place, London, and found w
| ii. Williams, secretary of the Associ
alton for the Prevention of Immigration
to England of Destitute Aliens, who,
| after listening to my story of deStitu
! ton, gave me two letters, one to the
| Emigrants' Information, No. SO Broad
way, eStminster, and the other to the
| Society for the Relief of Fore igners II
Distress, stating that his as association
kept paupers from landing in England
the other assisted them to leave The
| country.
81 may instance the sham Inspector
of the steamship companies at Liver
pool when they were not aware of the
presence of a commissioner, and tn
careful INSPECTION they hold whel
commissioner was there il
person; and the fact tina
NilSll VIC oUuSHJ lHlOI lldllOU U
even printed reports. they were refuse,
directly, or the existence of such report
was denied, though we afterwards sue
ceeded i'll procuring names, and in som
eases they fatty refused. When incog
nito l saw many emigrants passet
without any questions. There ma,
have been physicians around, but tn,
only inspection held when the emigrant
embarked was the examination of thei
tickets in order that none might go oil
board without tickets. The STEAMSHIP
companies and port officials always con
trived to present to the commissioner
such superficial examination we'll cal
cnlated to deceive, and by conductin:
| their acts SO as TO deceive"
NEW MEXICO'S CONDITION.
Synopsis OF the Annual Report o.