The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-12-09
10 DEPORT INSANE
Severe Measure Suggested for
Unfortunate Aliens.
HEAVY COST ON NEW YORK
Hearing of Subject Before
Committee of Senate.
HEAVY COST ON NEW YORK

Washington, Dec. S.-The senate com
mittee on immigration today gave a hear
ing to parties interested in the bill to
regulate the immigration of aliens into
the United States. Those present We're:
L.sF. Payson, representing the Southern
Pacific company; 5. C Neale and VIM
Haywood, of Washington, D C. repre-
senung the Hawaiian Sugar Planters
association and the Honolulu Chamber
of Commerce; Goodwin Brown and Dr.
=. B. Richardson Of the New York State
Lunacy commission; s. J. Barrows. New
York commissioner of Immigration. sar-
gent and Commissioner of Immigration
Williams. stationed at New York Mr.
Brown said that in the state insane hos
pitfalls of New York there are $4,000 in
mates, and that they are increasing at
the rate of 700 a year One half Of the
large number, he declared, are foreign
bern and should ont have been permitted
to land. He offered a proposed amend
ment to the bin extending the time to
two years for deporting an alien who has
become a public charge and with the
additional provision that "any alien who
becomes a public charge by reason Of
lUnacy, idiocy or epilepsy, within two
years after arrival viii be presumed to
have been such from causes existing prior
TO landing unless the contrary be affirm
etively shown"
Answering Senator Lodge. Mr. Brown
said that in the course of ten years the
foreign born insane in ,--s ciuntry wln
cost the United States 100000. He de-
clared that the state of New York would
be willing to pay the entire expense of
deporting all who come 10 the state and
who became insane within two years as
provided if his amendment should it be
adopted. The foreign insane, Mr.. Brown
said, answering Senator Lodge, were
largely from the upper class. Comman-
der General of immigration Sargent urged
the retention of the provision for 50 head
tax. Many undesirable immigrants, he
declared would not come here If the tax
was raised. These are the people" he
said, who cause the most trouble in
this country" To effectually carry out
the law, Mr.. Sargent said. will require
increased expense and this, he urged,
could be met by increasing the tax to
s.
Commissioner of Immigration Williams,
of New York. suggested certain changes
in the bill which had been deemed neces-
sary after a conference Of immigration
to draw tightly the line
OF immigrants. There was much perjury
at Ellis Island. Mr.. Williams stated par
tcularly with respect to diseased immi-
grants and a term of imprisonment should
be fixed in a case of that kind. He was
emphatic in favoring the sale Of liquors
at migration stations and insisted that
the secretary of the treasury should give
authority to say what should be sold at
these stations. A. 3. Richardson. COM
n issioner of lunacy of New York state
the statement of Mr. Brown
regarding the proportion of foreign born
ir sane IN hospitals. In cases of suspects, /
DR.. Richardson urged that the burden of
proof be put on the individual and not
on the government. Senators Mason and
Clay thought it woui~ be hardship to
do this The commission adjourned until
tomorrow.