Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-22
TO RESTRICT IMMIGRATION
Compromise Bill as Agreed upon by the
0onferrees.
NEW FEATURES JUST MADE FU6LlC
Stringent Regulations Laid Down
Concerning the Admission, at
Ports of Entry, of ForcIgn-
ers to This Country.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.-The compromise
Immigration bill, which has been agreed
upon by the conferees OF the house and
senate, and which will come before the
two houses for acceptance within few
days, contains several new features which
have not before been made public.
The first section of the senate bill Is re
tanned, and excludes from the United States
all persons over 16 years OF age who cannot
read and write the English language or the
language OF their native country, but is
amended by the words ''or resident before
country" in accordance with a suggestion
made by Chairman Bartholdt Of the house
committee.
For the purpose of testing the ability OF
immigrants to read 1t is provided that they
shall draw from box prin I'd slip con-
tanning between twenty and twenty-five
words of the constitution Instead ot hNe
lines of it, as required by the senate b'h. ana
read these words. a clause is added to the
bill that II the slips are not at hlnd 10Y
use the officers shall make the test by the
most appropriate and availlOle means at
hand and state in writing the reason why
the slips are lacking and the suotest em-
ployed.
Michigan for excluding aliens from tenn
porary employment in the United States
reads as follows: That 1t snail hereafter
be unlawful for any male alien who mas
not in good faith made his declaration be-
fore the proper court of record OF his in
tentiOn to become a citizen of the United
States to be employed on a public works
of the United States or to come regularly
or habtually 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 q
foreign country.
THAT II shall be unlawful for any part
nership, corporation or association to know
ingly employ any alien coming into the
country in violation of the next section OF
this act; providing that the provisions OF
this act shall not apply to the employ oil
sailors, deck hands or other employees OF
vessels, or railway train hands, such ss
conductors, engineers, brakemen, fremen or
baggagemen, whose duties require them Ia
pass over the frontier to reach the termnue
OF their runs. or to boatmen or guides cI
the lakes and rivers on the northern border
OF the United States
Violations OF these sections by aliens or
citizens are made misdemeanors. punishable
by $500 fine, or imprisonment not exceeding
one year, or both. and persons coming into
the country In violation of the sections are
to be deported to the country whence they
came.
The secretary Of the treasury Is author
lied to permit the entrance of aliens for the
purpose OF teaching new arts or industries
under such rules as he may provide.
The section OF the senate bill eXemptng
from the act persons who may enter from
Cuba during the disorders there, Is re.
tanned A new section is added to the bill
which follows:
THAT any alien who shall in violation
of this act, or any other existing law, Sc
cure entry into the United States without
inspection or examination, or through mis-
take Misrepresentation Colusion, deception
or fraud may be taken into custody by
the properly authorized immigration officers
within thirty days after the facts become
known to them, and such alien, upon spe-
cial inquiry at the most convenient place
conduct according to section 8 of the imm
grafton act of March 3, 1893 shall be deal
with az provided by law for alien imm
grants, upon their first arrival"
Instead of taking effect three months after
its passage, the bill is amended TO TAXI
effect July l. 1897.