Evening journal., 1897-01-22
TIE Immigration BILL.
Conferees Make Some Changes
In the Original Measure.
NEARLY A DEADLOCK IN SENATE.

An Attempt to Force a Vote on the Mica
ragua Canal Bnl-Addicks' Credentials
Presented-After an Attempted Filibus-
ter the House Confirms fuckers title.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-Ihe compromise
Immigration bill, which has been agreed
upon by the conferees of the house and sen
atc and which will come before the two
houses for acceptance within a few days,
contains several new features which have
not before been made public.
The first section of the senate bill is re
tained. which excludes from the United
States all persons over 16 years of age who
cannot read and write the English Ian
guage or the language of their native coun-
try, but is amended by the words or resi-
dent" before country, in accordance
with suggestion made by Chairman Bar
tholdt of the house committee. For the
purpose of testing the ability of immi-
grants to read, it is provided that they
shall draw from box printed slip con-
tanning between 20 and % words Of the
constitution instead Of five lines of it, as re-
quired by the senate bill and read these
words A clause is added to the bill that
II the slips are not at hand for use the off
GERS shall make the test by the most ap-
propriatc and available means at hand and
state in writing the reasons the slips Gro
lacking and the substitute employed.
The plan of Representative Corliss Of
Michigan for excluding aliens from tenn
porary employment in the United States
reads as follows: THAT it shall hereafter
be unlawful for any male alien who has
not in good faith made his declaration he
fore the proper court of record of his in
tention to become a citizen of the United
States to be employed on any public works
of the United States or to come regularly
OF habitually into the United States by
land or water for the purpose of engaging
in any mechanical trade or manual labor
for wages or salary, returning from time
TO time to a foreign country.
Exemption of transportation Employees.
"That 1t shall be unlawful for any per.
son., partnership. company or corporation
knowingly to employ any alien coming in
TO the United States in violation of the
next preceding section Of this act, provided
that the provisions of this act shall not ap-
ply TO the employment of sailors, deck
hands or other employees of vessels OF
railroad train hands, such as conductors
engineers, brakemen, fremen or baggage
men. whose duties require them to pass
over the frontier TO reach the terminus Of
their rum or TO boatmen or guides on the
lakes and rivers on the northern border OF
the United States. "
Violations. of these sections by aliens ol
citizens are made misdemeanors, punish
able by $500 fine or imprisonment not ex
ceeding one year, or both, and person,
coming into the country in violation o.
the sections are to be deportcd to the coun
try whence they came.
The secretary of the treasury is author
lied TO permit the entrance Of aliens foi
the purpose of teaching new arts or indus
tries under such rules as he may provide
The section of the senate bill excmptinl
from the act persons who may enter from
Cuba during disorders there is retained.
A new section is added to the bin
which follows
"That any alien who shall, in violation
of this act or any other existing act. secur
entry into the United States without in
spection or examination or through mis-
take, misrepresentation, collusion, decep
ton or fraud may be taken into custod
by the properly authorized immigration
officers within 80 days after the facts be
come known to them, and such alien, NJ
on a special inquiry at the most conyen
lent place, conducted according 70 sec
tion . of the immigration act Of March 3
1898, shall be dealt with as provided b
law for alien immigrants upon their frs
arrival
Instead of taking effect three month
after its passage, the bill is amended
take effect July l., 1897.