The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-12-17

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on the United States and its people. and
especially by the manual laboring class-
es with whom the immigrants come in
direct competition. The bill in question
provides that
All persons physically capable and over Ii
years of age who can not read and write the
English language or some other language; but
person not so able to read and write who is
over 50 years of age and is the parent or grand
parent of a qualified immigrant over 81 years
OF age and capable of supporting such parent
or grandparent may accompany such immi-
grant, or such parent or grandparent may be
sent for and come to join the family of a child
or grandchild over 2l years of age similarly
qualified and capable. and wife or minor
child not so able to read and write may ac-
company or be sent for and come to join the
husband or parent similarly qualified and ca
pable.''
SEC. 2. That for the purpose of testing the
ability of the immigrant to read and write, as
required by the foregoing section, the inspee-
tion officers shall be furnished with copies of
the Constitution of the United States. on slips.
each containing not less than 20 nor more than
25 words Of said Constitution printed in the
various languages of the immigrants In double
small plea type. No immigrant falling to read
and write out the slip thus drawn by him shall
| be admitted, but he shall be returned to the
country from which he came at the expense of
the steamship railroad company which
brought him. as now provided by law.
SEC. 8. That this act shall not apply to per-
sons arriving in the United States from any
port or place in the Island of Cuba during the
continuance of the present disorders there who
| have heretofore been inhabitants of that is
land.
SEC 4 That this act shall take effect three
months after its passage.
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Secretary Gage of the Treasury De-
partment has issued an order to the effect
that clerks in the Treasury Department
more than seventy years old who receive
more than 5000 year shall be reduced
to that figure. To this sweeping order
there is no exception.
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It is expected that the Committee on
Agriculture in the House will have the
Agricultural Appropriation bill ready to
report by the last of this week. Mr..
Wadsworth of New York, chairman of
the committee, said to-day: sit will be
4 impossible to keep the aggre gate amount
of the bill below the figures of last year
for the simple reason that the meat in
spection business must be more literally
provided for. 1t has got SO now that
foreign countries will not accept our
beef or pork unless it's purity is attested
by the governments inspection stamp.
The whole west is particularly interested
in this and from all along the Missouri
River come demands for an increase in
the number of employees in the Bureau
of Animal Industry, which is the official
name for that branch Of the department
having control of the inspection service.
| It has long been the belief that the
reasons assigned by foreign countries,
especially France and Germany, for the
exclusion Of our meat products have
been mere pretexts seized upon by the
governments of those countries and in
tended to operate as protective measures
for the benefit of the home producers of