Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-05-20
lBLEGRAPHIC,
IMMIGRATION BILLS.
-Four Proposed Measures Debated 10
The House.
GREAT DIVERSITY OF OpISIcH
Some Rrqpire Only an Educational Test
while others Favor Absolute
Exclusion.

wAsnfNuroN, May l9.-The House
today entered upon a two-days' debate
OF the immigration bills reported from
the immigration committee. The bills
were four in number. one, known
variously ~ the Bar,holdt, Mccall or
Lodge bill, provided an educational
test IT, excluded all male peftons be-
tween 10 and 90 years Of age who could
not read and write Luglish or some
other language. Another. the stone
bill, provided for inspection Of imml.
granite by our consular ,filcers aud
their cettiilcauon, when immigrants
do not belong to any class OF imml-
grants excluded by existing contract
labor or other immigration laws. Tnis
bill was offered o. an Amendment to
the BarthOldt.McCall bill.
Tho Curllss bill, offered M n subst,.
tuts. applied wholly To the Canadian
border, ana made II unlawful Tor any
allen TO enter tue United States Tex
copl 10 teach new arts or industriesl
aud engage In any mechanical trade VI
manual LABOR. Tbs provisions Of the
bill do not apply TO SAILORS on tho great
lakes.
The Mahaney bill, also offered az
substitute, makes all contracts by
nlisns 10 per Urm labor In the Uaittd
Ststes Illegal. ~ also makes II mis-.
domeauot for any person 10 perform
labor In the United States who has
become n citizen Of the United states
and returned 10 a foreign county 10
make that nis home. MahanoJ's sub.
ttituto was ruled out on point Of
order.
johnson (Rep., Call then offered n
sweeping motion 10 absolutely exclude
oil "i0Tulg u.bOrn" labOrefs, skilled or
unskilled, aud TO make captains ana
masters VI vgstols responsible for the
characters OF their passobgefs. This
was also ruled out
BaTthJiut said that there vts no
question 10 much talked about aud 20
l,.tle understood ne the problem oi im.
migration. There was, be thought,
too much passion nnu prejudice in the
demand nom certain quarters in favor
OF the oXrlu0I.n OF Foreigners. q Od
immigration, he urged, was desirable.
His bili was u moderate measure Tor
tue exclusion OF tho illittratcs. An
educational tcsi, he polluted out, would
not materially affect immigration
from Germany and other countries Of
northern Europe. lie warned hls RE-
publican associates that ~ the advO-
Gates Of the educational test for immi-
grafton they could 10 10 the country,
but consular inspection that would cut
oil all immigration save OF the most
undesirable sort from Germany anu
Scandinavia could never be successful.
ly defended.
Tracsyoll crop, Ind.l, who followed
BAriholdi, urtfaced his remarks by
stating that ho was not an A, 4. A.,
and declared himself In favor oiall the
bills reported by the Immigration com.
mittee. They were not Inconsistent,
he argued, Emu could all be paAod with
benefit to the country.
w. a, Stone Rep, Pa }, the author
OF the stone bill, explained is ptOvis.
ions anu Advocated IL passage. The
county, he argued, had long suffered
from uLren8onnble immigration,
Ihb Immigration for TUE iast tor
yenTa hhd exceeded the natural in.
crease. BaTtholut challenged this
state ment, Contendiug that tbe natural
increase was one million year, while
tho immigration hal averaged only
rb0ut quarter OF million year.
Atr. S one said that during the hatu
times Of the pact thrse years immigra.
ton hhd allen on, but with tue proc.
Toct OF returning prosperity aud high
wage, II would Increase 10 startling
proportions.
C9rllss crop. Mlch,) submitted an