The Daily Texarkanian., 1894-08-24
ALIEN REDS NOT DESIRED.
The House Judiciary Committee
Makes a Strong Report on
the Anarchist Bill.

One OF the strongest committee
reports at the present session of
Congress was that just made by the
House committee on judiciary, ia
voring the rigid exclusion and inn
mediate deportation of alien anar-
chists from American shores, The
report in briet says: 1T is admit
ted on all hands that the question
is one of very great Importance,
and that legislation ON the subject
is called for by every consideration
of public safety. The committee
is advised that owing to the severe
legislation recently adopted by
France and Italy, great many
dangerous anarchists are making
their way to the United States, and,
as under existing laws, they cannot
be denied admission into our terri
tory, the United States will soon be
the rendezvous of these human
monsters unless the proposed legis-
lation is speedily adopted. Our
committee is of the opinion that
the United States is fully justified
by existing conditions in using all
its powers to prevent immigration
and settlement in this country of
men who repudiate all law, all gov
eminent, and practically proclaim
themselves as the enemy of man
kind The peculiar method which
they adopt Of impressing the public
of the justice Of their views by de
testable assassinations and wanton
destruction of property, will not
commend them to the favorable
consideration of any one in this
country,
"Your committee has no DISPOSE
ton to hamper the prompt and rig
orous execution of a law providing
for their exclusion and deportation
by any unnecessary proceedings or
delays, and is now willing to con-
cede that the superintendent of i'm
migration and the secretary of the
treasury may be fully trusted to
confine the operation of the law to
those who are Justly subject to it's
provisions"
The report takes up the various
objections made to the proposed
measure and disposes of each of
them. Concerning the objection
that the bill is faulty in not defining
anarchy, the report says: Gas the
meaning of the word is defined as
absence of government, the state
of society where there is no law or
supreme power; a state of lawless,
political confusion, and its meaning
well known, it is considered unnec-
essary to cucumber the act with a
special definition
The committee meets the objec-
ton that a person should not be
charged with anarcy and deported
without jury trial, by saying:
ut would hardly be contended,
we suppose, that the government
ought to maintain jury at every
port Of entry for the purpose Of
passing upon the qualifications of
immigrants who desire to enter, and
as the immigrant who has been
permitted to enter acquires no
rights not possessed by the foreign
er who desires to enter, we are UNI
able to perceive upon what princi-
pie jury trial is insisted upon in
order to deport an alien whose con-
tinued residence in the country is
considered detrimental to the pub
lie welfare"
In conclusion the report states
that there is full constitutional
power for the enactment of the
proposed law and that there is ur-
gent necessity for the immediate
passage Of such a measure.
Strenuous efforts are being made
to pass the bill before Congress adj
journs. Secretary Carlisle and
Commissioner Of immigration
Stumpf are very DESTROYS of having
this law as protection against the
800 anarchists recently expelled
from foreign countries and now en-
route here. The treasury officials
have the cooperation Of Speaker
Crisp and the House managers, but
thus far it has been impossible to
steer the bill past the objections of
Mr., Warner of New York and 9th.
ers, which in the absence Of a quo
rum have prevented the passage of
the Senate bill.