The sun., 1892-03-27
THE IMMIGRATION OUES TIoN
Labor Orsaai.atiOns Advocate tho Isiii to
Keep Out Improper Imnigrnnts

| WASHINGTON. March 2G.-Eer rcsentatiyos OF
several organizations who have given tho i'm.
| migration question careful study appeared
| before the Scnuto and House Committees on
Immigration in joint session to-day and advo-
| Gated the bill Of Representative Stone of Penn
| sylvania to restrict improper Immigration
into the United States. They were O. r. Coch-
| ran OF Allegheny. Pa, Pres idcnt of the Junior
Order United Association Of Mechanics; John
i. Eberhardt. President Of the Window Glass
| Workers Association OF America: John d..
Carey of tho Amagamnted Association OF Iron
| and Steel Workers. and a. u. wilkins of the
Junior Order of United American Mechanics.
Representative Stone said that tho State
Department should have supervision over i'm :
| migrants. instead OF the Treasury Department.
and that the United States officers on the other
side OF tho water should examine immigrants
10 ascertain the fitness and condition of per-
sons intending to migrate 20 the United States
1t was the Tauper criminal and those who
would organize secret associations at which
the bill WIS aimed. He was opposed to plac-
ing any power in the hands of the steamship
companies in handling immigrants. In his
opinion tho present manner Of exanin-
ing immigrants on this side OF tho
water was utterly incomplete and useless.
II was impossible to properly tell whether an
immigrant landing here was.4 convict in his
Mr.. ,Ebcrh;ardt said that tho foreigners and
numbered 81 5UO. 900. equal 10 tile uopuIation
OF tho countries Of Holland. Belgium S,yit2.r-
II, land and Swedsn In New York city eight out
tho 100000 immigrants landed last year
dh" .Inss & greater ter r1rton were Of th" lowest
III the immigrants would 81 eak the truth. the
present law would be sufficient to carry into ei-
feet its purpose Nut he said he had assisted in
examining immigrants mt the New York lurpa
ohic".and those wlo came here under contract
should give e" sI # He w. sa InsMst n 5ey
whore Belgian Immigrant landed and had
ticket for small isolated town in Connect-
the immi igrant said that there was an industry
ct the place with which he was liar aud
had neyer % heard % Of Pi,iia%elpha. NO Immigrant
on1os.d ana ssian n1t I ~ was
were morally unit ior eitizenshp and the "lso as
sso.ciation endorsed and approved Mr.. stones
thn hii whicn Nc th cam" nearer Snitng tho people
the examination of immigrants on the other
side Of l., the water; and said that it was hut
abroad to give certificates of character 10 tho
a ond s!nss o q their @ people and keep the better
Mr. Cochran would be to 'i re"uir" every : mmi sap
hg l." sast hnd
Mr.. Cochran called attention to section OF
the bill providinSan inspection Of Immigrants
by. United States officers abroad thirty days
changed to ninety days. It was suggested
that certificates of Identification might fail in
tho purpose OF identifying the immigrants on
this side MS having passed the examination
abroad. and German editor Of a Washington
weekly. who was present and opposed the
measure. incidentally, remarked TINT photo
graphs OF persons conld he furn shod the Gov
ficaton.
Assistant Secretary Nettcton to-day di-
recteI Commissioner Weber mt New York 10 |
permit the landing. subject to future eXami- |
nation. Of the forty immigrants dcbarred from |
landing by Deputy Commissioner O'Berne |
because they did not have at least SO each |
and u ticket to destination.