The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-01-05
Senator Chandler Introduces Another Bill Pro-
viding for the Total Exclusion of Ger
tain Classes of Foreigners
Several congressman Confident Strin.
gent Measures Will Soon Be Adopted.
Paper Money a Breeding Place for Iacterla-
Typhus Fever Raging at New York-The Ar
kansas Epidemic Under Investigation.
REsTRICTING IMMIGRATION.

Measures tn that Effect Likely to BE Adopt
ed By the Present Congress.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-Senator Dubois.
of Idaho, who is a member of the Senate
committee on immigration. and who ac-
c%ompanied the complttee upon Its recent
visit to Florida and Cuba, whittier 1t
with a view to ascertainIng whether. in
adopting q bill s%uspending immigration.
it will be advisable to include immigrants
from Cuba as we'll as European ports. SAID
to-day thai a report would be submitted to
the Senate within a few days, and that 1t
would take the ground that immigrants
from Cuba should not be barred out. We
found" said Senator Dubois, "that the
quarantine laws of Florida, whose ports re-
ceive most of the immigrants from Cnba.
are so nearly perfect and are so well en-
forced that there Is little, If any, danger
from any epidemic disease. arising III Eu-
rope especially, reaching us through Cuban
ports. Then the Cuban sanitary and quar-
antlne officers have promised to cooperate
with our officers In keeping out or our
country all infected immigrants"
boy you anticipate any immigration leg
~lslation before the 4th of March,"
There Will be no legislation upon the
subject OF immigration per Sc" replied the
Senator, but | am confident q bill Will be-
come law which will either suspend lmInl-
grafton for one year. absolutely. or which
will authorize or direct the President to
do SO under certain conditions. Upon
that point there Is "a division
COMMITTEES and OF the two houses
OF Congress. the Senate believes in an
absolute Suspension of Immigration for one
year. while the House believes
- an Nil nrtnOytotnr nr . - ~ Tho prna-
ident to suspend Immigration for one year
at a time under certain conditions, such as
the prevalence of cholera in Europe. pro-
viding further for the inspection of Immi-
grants by consular officers, the fumigation
of ships. and so forth. Such a bill will
pass the Senate. and / have no doubt the
House will pass Its bill. Then there will
be q conference, when the difference Will
be adjusted. A hill for the suspension of
immigration will become law before the
4th of March. In the opinion of the Senate
committee. ana l think thisis the view of all
legislators who are taking an interest IN
the subject. There will be little lmmigra-
ton next year unless the cholera disap-
pears.
The reassembling of Congress to-day
brought out ample evidence of the interest
III the general subject of restriction OF lm-
migration, not only on sanitary grounds
but for the protection of American labor.
A petition was offered asking for legisla-
tion to prevent the employment of Cana
dian laborers. who to the number of be-
tween two and three hundred thousand
cross the border every morning, and, after
working all day for American wages. re-
turn to their homes at night. The pro-
test against the employment of this
kind of labor, which IS said to
have increased enormously within a
few years, will only add to the
agitation for annexation. Interest in i'm
migration was also shown by the discns.
sion in the Senate of Mr.. Chambers
effort to secure a special consid-
GRAFTON of the two bills on the calendar.
one from the on epidemic dis
| eases, and the other from the immigration
committee. One of these bills proposes a
total suspension of immigration for one
| year. and the other would give increased
powers of quarantine to the federal gov
eminent. Mr.. Chandler strongly urged the
Importance of these bills. and he announced
that the President, without waiting for adj
dItional authority from Congress, would
within q few davs announce new regnia-
tions as TO quarantine. which wOuld affect
the whole subject. That the consideration
of this subject Is comparatively free from
partisan influences was shown by Senator
Harris, of Tennessee. who reported the
quarantine bill, and who declared bis per-
fect agreement with MIR. Chandler. Never
| theless, the anti-option bill interfered with
| Mr.. Chambers efforts to-day, although ii
will be renewed Tomorrow.