Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-10-18
Report of English Commission
Appointed to Investigate
Alien immigration
MAJOR GORDON is INTERVIEWED
Declares The Whole Question Is Of Vi
tai Interest to Great Britain as Well
4. to America-British Claim Fewer
Railway Aecidents-Blue Book on
Remount Department.
rAssoc,a4ed Press Cable letter.


[Associated Press Cable letter.
London, Oct 1S.-Major. Evans Cor
don. NJ. p, member Of the royal COM
mission on alien immigration, VINO mas
lust returned from two months Visit
to Russia, Poland, Galicia and Rouman-
ia. where he has been studying the
causes underlying the Jewish exodus
thence, speaking to the Associated
Press today said: The whole question
s Is one OF vital interest to England and
less 80 to the United States. Secretary
Hays Roumanian note admirably ex-
presses the reasonable attitude of the
United States towards immigration
generally. 1t is perfectly just state
ment Of the responsibility of the Rou-
manian government for the exodus OF
Jews from that country and 1T Will
have q moral IL not concrete results.
i do not think, however, that Rou-
mania is the most vital question to the
4
to America has been very thoroughly
aifted by several influential Jewish
societies. This, coupled with your inn
migration laws and the fact that a
man must have fair amount Of money
even to get to New York. insures your
getting the cream of the emigrants
The Russian question is more serious
problem for America, both as regards
the number and class Of people in
yolved. You must remember that Rou-
mania has only about 25O,0O0 Jews,
while Warsaw alone probably has q
Jewish population Of 100000. Sooner
or later. England will have to adopt
restrictive legislation of some sort, for
II believe 1t will be found England is be-
ing made and has long been the dump
ing grounds, not only for paupers. but
for criminals and undesirable persons
OF all Europe. The police OF Paris
and other continental cities told me
frankly when they deport suspected
person against whom there is not suf
dcient evidence to secure conviction
they send him to England, it is so
much nearer and cheaper than Amer
lea and there is absolutely no restric-
ton upon his landing
British RoadS Compared.
The report Of H. A. Walker, the ex-
pert sent by the London & Northwest
ern railroad to America in order to in
vestigate the railroads condition, has
been published. Walker sums up as
follows:
IT will be seen from the figures be-
fore you that American companies
have nothing to boast OF in the safety
either of their passengers or employees.
On the contrary, human life seems to
be considered OF much less importance
there than here, and am of the opin-
ion in this respect the British railway
officials have nothing whatever to learn
from their American conferees."
Walker gives figures showing that
twice as many passengers are carried
sOn the United Kingdom lines as on the
& American, tho the latter have nine
times greater mileage, while American
figures show much larger proportion
/ Of accidents and fatalities to passen-
gers and employees. The English ex-
pert believes that the agitation going
on In Great Britain for adoption of au-
tomato couplings used in America is
not justified by the statistics, the old
fashioned screw couplings showing a
smaller percentage of accidents to en-
ployeA. Curiously enough the same
day this justification of the British
railroad system appears, the Times and
Saturday Review prints letter from
q well known engineer in which the
writer makes an urgent plea for the
adoption Of automatic couplings. and
quotes the interstate commerce COM
missions figures as showing that de-
crease in the number of accidents had
resulted therefrom.
Praise for American Mules.
The Blue Book Has been issued con-
tanning the detailed report of the OFF,
GERS appointed by the commander-in-
chief of the army to ihquire into the
h workings of the remount department.
The report speaks generally favorably
CT the arrangements of the department
and Of the class Of animals purchased.
Dealing with the case of Captain Smith,
who was attached to he purchasing
commission at New Orleans, the report
finds Smith received a commission on
every animal he purchased and that
many mules bought by him We're absa-
lItely unfit and useless and that he was
guilty of malpractice and brought the
greatest discredit upon the DEPART
/ nent. The report also finds that Cap
tain f.. r. Mandslay and Veterinary
Surgeon Pawes behaved with extreme
impropriety in purch lsing for their own
,sse and shipping TO England horses
brought up for inspection as remounts
end which actually had been branded.
The report says regarding American
mules: "In our opinion nothing APP
proaches them. especially the gun
mules Of the mountain batteries in In
dia. We do not see a fault to find with
them as class
American Generals Return.
The visit of Generals Corbin and
1 Young to England concluded this morn
ing, when they left here to embark on
the steamer Philadelphia at South
ampton.
BOXERS NOT SUPPRESSED.
Viceroys Ask That Missionaries Do
Not Travel in Sze Chuen.
Pekin, Oct. 1S.-The new viceroy of
SEE Chuen, province of Tsen Chun SUI
an, reports the boxers have not been
suppressed at Cheng Tu. Two other