Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-26
immigration officials at New York
Point Out It's Defects.
STATUTE REGARDING CRIMINALS
Contract Laborers Are Only Barred
Out BY. Implication.
MRS. STUCKLER'S TESTIMONY

NEW YORK, July 26.-At today's session
of the subcommittee of the United States in
dustrial commission Roman Dobbler chief
of the boarding inspectors of immigration at
the barge Office, testified that his expert
ence was that the clerks coming to the
United States in the second cabin with $40
or 500. were the first TO become public char
tiles. The witness prepared a table show
ing the comparative arrivals of passengers
in the first and second cabins and the steer
age. On such lines as the North German
Lloyd, ,Ctnard, American, Anchor and
White Star lines the number of saloon pas
sengers almost equaied the arrivals in the
Storage. In vessels from Mediterranean
ports, however. the steerage passengers
greatly exceeded the other classes Nor
mons, he said, always came on vessels of
the Anchor line from Glasgow, in the sec
ond cabin His figures showed that while
2,oS3 passengers came from Italian ports
In the steerase, only twenty-five came as
cabin passengers
M. Dobbier said many persons came in
the second cabln in order to avoid the rigid
scrutiny at the barge Office. He believed
many OF the new arrivals had been coached
as TO their answers to questions put to
them here.
Dihculty in Enforcing the LAW.
Dr. Lorenzo Ullo, legal adviser of the i'm
migration bureau, said there was great
difficulty in enforcing the laws, owing to
the many contradictions found in the stat
utes relative to immigration. case in
point was the law regarding criminals COM
ing to this country whom the law requires
shall be returned to the nation to which
they belong and the port from which they
came Sometimes the criminal was an
oriental and came from Bremen. He
thought the law should say such persons
should simply not be permitted to land
and the steamship companies left to do
with them what they believed best.
Witness said that in none Of the immi-
grafton laws was there an express pro-
vision for the deportation of contract la
borers. The laws of 1891 did so by impli-
cation. and it was under this act that the
department was working.
The witness said he favored amending
the law regarding contract laborers SO as
to include any agreement to come here to
work, not rigidly a contract. He would
also give persons brought here by the
steamship companies contrary to the i'm
migration lawsecauss of action against the
owners of the vessel that brought them.
If it is advisa ble,%5 he said. Ito restrict
law must be amended. The law as it stands
does not restrict
Mrs. stuekier's Testimony.
Mrs. Virginia Sucker, the chief matron
at the barge Office, testified regarding the
treatment of encients women arriving here.
Of 1,441 women arriving during this month
in that condition, ffty-two We're married at
the barge office, twenty eight were admit
ted on appeal and the others were found to
be married women
Mrs. Sucker said that there was an
average of one marriage day at the land
ing bureau. Thirty-one women arrived
who haG been unfaithful to their husbands,
but except in three cases they were permit
TED to land. -
Mrs. Stuckler thought the laws should in
clude an act prohibiting the landing of
girls brought here for immoral purposes
There was no such prohibition in the pres
ent laws