The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-12-27
IMMIGRATION LAWS

section .. chapter ist oi ihs AgJ
passed OBJ Conrfoss In 1875. rcgardipg
he Importation of allen contract labor
.Is b. AZ follows.
"It shall De unlawful fJr any per
son, company. partnership. or corpora
ton, IN any manner whatsoever, to
prepay the transportation or in any
way assist or encourage The importa-
ton or immigration Of any alien or
aliens. any foreigner Or foreigners, into
The United States. is Territories, or the
District OF Columbia, under contract or
agreement TO perform labor or service
of any kind.
section ?. That an contracts or
agreements, expressed or implied, pa
role or special, which may hereafter be
made by and between any person,
company, partnership, or corporation,
and any foreigner or foreigners. alien
or aliens, to perform labor or service
or having reference TO the performance
OF labor or service, by any person In
| the United States, Its Territories, or
| the District OF Columbia, previous to
! the migration or importation Of the
person or persons, whose labor or SER
/ vice Is contracted for, into the United
States, shall be utterly void and OF no
effect"
The provisions OF the act are clear,
and leave no loop hole for judicial con
struction. The Commissioners OF lmmi-
grafton are empowered TO decide the
condition OF the immigrant, and the
only appeal is 20 the Secretary Of the
Treasury. This Is an expensive pro
p ceeding, and the poor emigrant is no
d able 10 make IL.
on November 2lst, a female imml
e grant from Slrasburg, Germany, wa
refused admittance, In the port OF New
! YORK, by the Immigrant Commissioner
on the ground that she was likely e
become public charge. She wa
brought before Judge Lacombe, one o
the ablest of the Circuit judges Of IN,
Federal courts. The Judge said that h,
could not override the decision OF tn
Commissioner. The following IL brie
account of the proceeding:
Mir. Gottlieb, who appeared for TN
woman said That she mad relatives il
this city who would see that she dli
. not become a public charge, and h
,, declared that the woman ought TO b
set Tree. Judge l.scOmDe said that tn
immigration Commissioners had decid
= ed that she should be deported, an
r that he could do nothing in the cast
'If the Commissioners" he sale
wish TO order an alien drawn
I quartered and chucked overheard the
= could do SO without interference"
But she has money" protested Nj
GOttlieb.
That makes no difference" sal,
Judge LaCOmbe; not even II she haI
100000. II Baron Rothschild cam,
over here In the steerage as an i'm
migrant and the Commissioners deCid
ed that II was likely that he would be
come public charge they could de
port him. The courts have decided
' that over and over again, The only
, thing for you to do Is TO apply to thu
Secretary OF the Treasury"
Mr.. Gottlicb said he would do so
: The young woman Is said to have al
uncle in this city, IgnatZ Bobb of 10,
Lexington Avenue. She paid her owl
way to this country, and says heI
father Is Superintendent of the largest
hospital in Strasburg.
, Judge Lacombe is conservative, and
his remarks from the Bench, show that
he regarded the law as unjust in sev.
eral ways.
These laws will be soon in operation
here. Under them. a Commissioner Of
, Immigration may reject any imported
laborers from Japan or elsewhere, II II
his opinion, they are within the stat
ute, and the courts cannot reverse hi
decision, The bearing OF these laws oil
our plans to supply our plantation
with laborers should be carefully con
5 sidercd