The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-09-29
PAUPERS AND CRIMINALS.
An Investigation of the Manner in Which
They Are Shipped to this Country.

Within day or two there will be
published under order Of congress the
the reports of the commissioners sent
to Europe last year by the treasury
department to investigate the extent
and origin of emigration to the United
States. The commissioners sent out by
the secretary of the treasury were j. r.
Weber, commissioner of immigration
at New York; j. r. Cross of Minnesota,
J. Walter Kepster of Wisconsin, Joseph
POwderly of Pennsylvania, and H. J.
Schultis of the District Of Columbia.
The conclusion showed by Messrs
Weber and Kepster was made public
at the time their report reached the de-
partment The report of the others has
not been published. In the division of
territory to be covered Messrs Weber
and KepSter were assigned to Northern
France, Holland, Belgium, Germany,
Russia, Austria and Hungary, and
Messrs. Powderly, Cross and Schultis
to Great Britain, Southern France,
Switzerland and Italy. They did not,
however, strictly cOnfine themselves to
these limits. AS result of his inves-
tigation, 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 60 from "hOmes,''
one of which has fOrty-eight branches.
A society in aid of discharged prison
ers, of which Queen Victoria is pa
iron, is cited as type of those engaged
in sending the criminal classes to-
America. A list of sixty-nine others is;
given in the report. TO Mr.. Schultis,.
as member of the American confer
ence of charities and corrections, Col.
II. Buchanan. secretary of the royal So
ciety aforesaid, told how nicely one Of,
his discharged prisoners got along in:
North Carolina. The records of the
pOSt-OfficeS show that the society sends.
numbers of money orders to these dis
charged emigrant prisoners. Mr.. Schulz
tbs furnishes a case of two persons who
admit that they were inmates Of poor
houses in England and their passages.
to America were prepaid by one OF the
societies.
Il visited Mr.. Hetherington,' says
Mr.. SchultiS, at his office in the rail-
way station, and was Informed that he
had nothing to say relative to matters
pei Udlu1llS W UIlO VI dIIOpOI UdCIO1I VI CLI-
igrants; that the company never gave
ject. | questioned an emplOye about
the railway station who admitted that
Mr.. HetheringtOn frequently sent, con-
tract labOrefs to one DELL whose Of
flee was III West Forty-seventh street,
New Y ork city, but | could learn moth
ing definite as to names or Occupa-
tiOns.'
Mr.. Schultis interesting and most
valuable information on the subject
was obtained by questioning. He says:
On July Is, disguised as destitute
alien pauper, repaired to Is Arlington
Place, London, and found w. H. Will
Jams, secretary of the association for
the prevention of immigration to Eng
land of destitute aliens who, after list
ening to my story of restitution, gave
me two letters, one to the EmigrantS'
Information, No. 38 Broadway, West
minister, and the other to the Society
for Relief of Foreigners in Distress,
stating that his association kept paul
pers from landing in England and the.
others assisted them to leave the cOun-
try l may instance the sham inSpec-
ton on the steamship companies at
Liverpool, when they were not aware.
OF the presence OF commissioner and
the careful inspection they hold when
commissioner was there in person:
and the fact that when we sought in
formation or even printed reports, they
were refused directly, or the existence,
of such reports was denied though we
afterwards succeeded in procuring
names; and in some cases they fatty
refused. When in incOgnitO l saw
many emigrants pass without any
questions. There may have been ply
sicians around, but the only inspection
held when the emigrants embarked was
the examination of their tickets, in Or
der that none might 60 on board without
tickets. The steamship companies and
port officials alway cOntrive to present
to the commissioners superficial exa-
mination well calculated to deceive
Pioneer Press.
Tempus Fugit.
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