The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-07-25
CRIMINALS FROM EUROPE
SENT As IMMIGR4NTS UNDER THE
P1RDON SYSTEM.
To Prevent Undesirable People Cor ing
tits Suggested That the Head Tax be
Doubled and That steamship Conn
panies Guarantee Passengers VIII Not
Become Public Charges.

New York, July 24.-The industria
commission met here to-day. Assistant
Commissioner of immigration Edward
f. McSweeney, said that it had been
estimated that as a RESULT of the law
of 1893 $4,000 persons who applied Tor
tickets to this country We're refused
transportation by the agents of the
steamship companies.
Mr.. McSweeney recited the difficulties
in enforcing the law regarding the eX-
clusion of undesirable immigrants. lie
said that any allurement offered to any
one to come here to labor should be
deemed sufficient to bar the immigrant.
He said he doubted If there was any
class more Objectionable than those who
came here without dollar in their
pockets ready to take any mans job at
any price He believed the law should
be revised He thought that the whole
family should be deported when one
member of it was found to be suffering
from loathsome disease
"Do you know that the padron sys-
tenn still prevails here?" asked Mr., Far?
quhar
1--WE are morally sure that it does.
When people come here from Italy sup
piled with equal amounts of American
gold, we think there is something more
than mere chance in the coincidence"
The assistant commissioner said that
he would recommend that the head tax
be doubled and that the steamship COM
panies be required to furnish a guaran-
tee that none of their passengers shall
become public charges for two years
instead of one. as at present. He de-
clared that the reputable companies
would support the enactment Of such a
law Mr. McSweeney spoke of the es-
tablishment at the landing bureau of an
officer of the Italian government.
He said: Il believe that while the
italian government continues its quasi
official supervision over the immigrants
the inspection of the United States gov
ernnent must be offset to some extent.
The establishment of such bureau
tends to encourage undesirable immi-
grants to come here because they feel
they will be protected We believe that
the objects for which the office was
opened have not been achieved. The
padrone system has not been broken;
criminals from italy have not been stop
ped from coming here and there is no
good reason for its maintenance
do you still think there is assisted
to this country?" asked
Chairman Smythe.
Yes; | think assisted immigration
comes from many countries but that
it collects in one, and comes here gem
orally through England, via Canada. |
institutions in England are
moving paupers on. They |
are landed in Liverpool, sent to Quebec |
and finally landed in New York
Mr.. McSweeny said that tl~are were
very few immigrant girls led astray now |
by the pirates who formerly hung about |
the entrance of the landing station. 4 |
number of the pirates had been sent to
state prison and the girls were now
ledged about with many safeguards.
The commission adjourned until to-
morrow after examining several other
witnesses In regard to the immigration
raffic and the civil service law as re-
yards clerk hire, etc, in the immigration
bureau.