The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-07-27
CHEAP LABOR FL(ek|NG N.
Several Changes In the Immixratioa
Laws sa9gcsted hy the Experts
Who Handle the fneomcrs ut the
Barge OMce-Italian Exptalns.

NEW YORK. July a.-At today's ses-
sion Of the United States industrial CON-
mission. k9fnaH pobner. chief IF ths
boarding inspectors OF immigration a, the
barge office, testified that n.s experience
Was that clerks coming To the snfsI
States tn the second cabin with 80 OF ss9
were the first IN become pubic charge.
The witness prepared a table showing the
comparison between Passengers ia abe sec
ord cantn and he HteefaGe. On such lines
az the North German Lloyd. Gunsfd,
American. Anchor and White Star, the
number Of saloon passengers almost
equased the arrivals N The steerage. In
vessels from Mediterranean ports, how-
ever. the st@egage passengers greatly ex-
said always came on vessels of the Anchor
line from Glasgow III tire second eaStn.
His figures showed that while 2.nss pas
asnKeTa came from Italian ports in the
passengers. AIR. Dobhier said that NAM
persons came IN he second cabin ia order
70 avoid the rigid scrutiny at the barge
office. He believed MAN, OF the new ar
rivals had been coached as 10 their an
swers 10 questions put Ia them here.
Or, Lorenzo tito. legal adviser OF the
immigration bureau, SAID there was great
difficulty in enforcing the laws owing TO
the many contradictions found III the
statutes relative 10 immigration. case
in pcist was The law regarding criminals
coming Ia this country. whom the laS
requires shall be returned TO the nation
20 which they belong and the port from
inai was an Oriental and came from Hre-
men. He thought the law should say such
persons would simply not ke peruitted TO
land and the steamship companies left 80
DO with them as they believed best. Wit
ness sad that n nape 81 tue immsgEa-
ton laws was there an express provision
for the deportation Of contract lahorsrs
The laws OF ISL did so by implication. and
IL was under these acts that the depart
nent was working The witness said he
favored ameEd.ns the law regarding con-
f-l.a ma Fys-ks- ~
Batnt To come here 10 work, not figidfy a
contract, He would give persons brought
here by the steamships companies con-
traFy 30 the Immigration laws cause ~ ae-
ton agains, the owners of the vessel that
brought them.
Mrs. Virginia Sucker the chief rnatrou
az the barge office. testified regarding Tire
treatment ~ emcteate Women arriving here
OF I al women arriving during the month
in that condition, ffty-twc were married
at the barge office, twenty-sighi Mere all
mitied on appeal and the others were
found 10 be married women Ms Stuck
Ter Thought the laws should include an
act prohibiting The landing Of girls
brought here FOR immoral PURPOSES There
WAS no snch prohibition in the present
laws
William weihs. OF The contract labor
bureau, who Was formerly president of
the Arnafga mated Association III Iron and
Steel Workers. said 50 per rent. nf al the
cheap labor coming here. sinsaks poiaks
where they not only worked on railroads
and In the rnines, hnt entered Into COM
petition I'm the industrial eenteEs i'll the
iron and glass works
1T has been shown, said MIR Neghe
sthat the companies give the preference
80 Foreigners sven when skilled American
worknen cffer te work for the Same
wages
pr Eiisto RoSsl. chief of the italian
bureau ri tbe barge office. said hts h1s-
reau was supported hy tina Italian gov
eminent Ills government did net en-
courage emigration tn this country The
bureau had bern established here tu reg
uiata the padrene system. and fov the
purpose of keeping s. record of Italian i'm
migrants arriving ia this eouuyrs While
h could nri say his bureau had destroy
81 she pasirnne system. yet he had been
able - prevent many rev arrivals fro4n
italy coming srto contact WITH the bank
cra ant ysaeronez In this country
ID sou st.u regard Italian Immigrants
80 tbs country as eoaanissSf asked Chair
r' ..s,. sal 3D.
have met taken DUF naturalization Fspcrs
an uetifisa the Italian Rovr4 nrasnJ that
Humtsft
tsr or Aaril = last IN which yse satt tfsat
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tS3sfFS bad ceased in tais w9Ssttry ana 8s
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circular Msnv persons wsTe srrfV ne frpHn
ftasg N!tA insufficient fun8s ara s5ynDtv
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she ufayogs sai pfssgstss ssa Necessity Z re-
.nE caE~ful ln issuing passports. thc ~ ere
so 49, This country VS. Gag ssc3 ~ war
and zs4siu~zyfal tszteg1T5sss " fr ia a meas
ure ssssasa n,sesi-
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itsf-as senVrreg asHt sHtriats Asp Interested
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