The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-02-10
BARS ILLITERATES.
immigration Eill Passes House by
Big Majority.
CUBAN REFUGEES EXEMPTED
FROM IT'S PROVISIONS.

Final Vote on Passage 1872 to 1.-two
Pension Bills Passed Over Presidents
Veto-Marshau Brown of Portland
Made Governor of Nat ional Soldiers
Home.
Washington, February 9.-In the House
today MIR. Danford, Republican of Ohio,
called UP the second agreement of the
conferees upon the i'm migration bill,
which was presented to the House yester
day and after reading Of the statement by
the oonferees, he demanded the previous
question. This was seconded, "a to l@.
The bill as agreed upon provides for the
admission of illiterate wives and children
of male immigrants who themselves are
eli gible to admission. I he educational
test was changed to admit any male i'm
migrant. otherwise qualified, who onn
read and write the English or some other
language. the sections relating to the
coming of "Birds of Passage" especial
]y over the Canadian border, was changed
to read:
Section At shall hereafter be unlaw-
1ul LOT any Iualo alleu WIZ as Ao1 IN kooo
faith made declaration before proper
court of his intention to become citizen
of the United States, to be employed Oh
any public works of the United States,
or come regularly or 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
foreign country.
Section Sit shall be unlawful for any
person, partnership, company or corpora
tion knowingly to employ any alien
coming into the United States in viola
tion of the next preceding section OF this
act:
Provided, that the provisions of this
act shall not apply TO the employ ment OF
sailors, deckhands, or other employees of
vessels. or railroad train hands, whose
duties require them to pass over the
frontier to reach the termini of their
runs, or to bcatmen or guides on the
northern border Of the United States.
Section 6-Any violation Of the pro-
visions of sections four and five of this
act by any alien or Citizen she'll be
deemed misdemeanor, punishable by
flne not exceeding $500 or imprisonment
not exceeding one year or both, such fine
and imprisonment, in the discretion of
the court:
Provided, that all persons convicted of
the violation of section four of this act
shall be deported to the country whence
they came.
Section .-Notwithstandi the pro-
visions of this or any other existing law.
the secretary of she treasury may permit
aliens to enter this country for the pnr-
pose of teaching new arts or industries;
under such rules and regulations as he
may provide.
A new stction was added.
"Section s. S.'-This act shall not apply
to persona arriving in the United States
froIn any place or port in the Island of
Cuba, during the continuance of the
present disorders there, who have bither
to been inhabitants of that island"
The immigration bill was discussed
and the report agreed to-162 to IA.
demand for the yeas and nays was
seconded. The vote resulted-yeas, 217;
nays, 81.
The President'e veto Of the bill 90
grant pension to Rachel Patton.
soldiers widuw who afterwards married
and Ia now divorced widow of her re-
cent husband, was called up and the bill
passed. the objections Of the President to
the contrary Notwithstanding, 143 TO 60.
The bill to pension Caroline Mowatt was
paesed over the Presidents veto, 143 to
55
The following measures were passed: !:
Joint resolution making MarshallBrow
of Maine, member of the hoard of gov
ernors cf the National Soldiers Homes,
in place IF George l.. Beale, decenfe0.
The House adjourned.