The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-13
SACRIFICE TO
SECURE VOTES
Educational Test Will Be Left
Out of immigration Bill.
FINAL HEARING YESTERDAY
MANY REFORMS URGED BY THE
VARIOUS WITNESSES.

4 Il O4Ns lJCN- - 1T NO.
w ings on the immigration bin by
the senate committee on immigra-
ton were concluded today. The testi-
mony taken today was largely in the
interest of legislation and a willingness
was manifested on the part of the i'm
portant witnesses to submit to the elm
ination of the provision for an educa
tional test should such action prove
necessary to~secure the success of the
bill. Commissioner General of Immi-
grafton Sargent said that, while he
would prefer the retention of the edu-
cational requirement, he recognized the
fact that the feature could be sacri-
tced without destroying the efficacy OF
the bill. With the other portion OF
the bin unimpaired, he believed that
most of the undesirable illiterates could
be kept out under other restrictions
Mr.. Sargent made an urgent plea fol
retention of the SO head tax, saying
that with the increased vigilance nee
essary money would be required to
meet the expenses of the service.
Cheap Labor From Mexico.
He spoke especially of the necessity
for increased vigilance on the Alneri-
can frontier. and said that ne recently
had secured information by personal
observation of the smuggling into this
country of large number of the most
undesirable element of Mexico, people
who We're willing to work at from 2;
cents to 30 cents per day. These peo-
pie, he said, were fed from troughs. as
hogs might be, and were treated just
as slaves. They were finding employ
ment in the mines of Colorado and New
! Mexico. We do not want such labor az
that, and the Mexican frontier is lone
and hard to guard, rendering the WORK
expensive. Mr.. Sargent declared thai
there is now in this country plenty Of
labor at the proper remuneration. He
declared that the plea for unlimited
| immigration is from the transportation
( companies alone, and not from the
manufacturers and farmers.
| He had no general fault to find witt
the transportation companies, but h
/ had complained of their schemes Il
evade the law. On this account, he ap
! pealed for irOnclad requirements.
Inspection System.
| Among the more important witnesses
/ of the day was Robert Watchorn, il
charge of the United States immigra
/ ton inspection service in Canada, Will
J headquarters at Montreal He supplied
/ the committee with a great deal o
| information concerning the operation
! or the inspection system on the Cana
dian border. He advocated the elinina
ton of the provision of the bill ex
/ cepting railroad lines entering tn
/ United States from contiguous terri
tory from the penalty for bringing il
! insane, diseased and idOtic aliens. H
also SAID the bill would be improves
! if all the provisions relating to Cana
da should be stricken out except sec
| ton 80, placing the entire regulation
of border immigration in the hands o
the immigration bureau
! He said that at present the CANADIAN
railroads coming into the United State
are prompt in complying with the re
| quirements of the inspectors but tina
this compliance was due to the penalt,
imposed. Without that penalty
would be impossible to secure thei
compliance. He said that. owing Z
the strict requirements made by on
law of steamship lines coming into tn
United States, there had been asmos
entire elimination of undesirable i'm
migrants landing at American ports
but that the reverse was true of immi
grants coming into the United State
through Canada, the percentage of dis
eased persons coming through Canad
being sixty. while those coming direc
! to the United States. the proportion
was only one-tenth of l per cent. This
he said. was the result Of design an
in Europe furnishing badges to inmi
grants. showing them TO be disease
or not.
Guarding the Frontier.
Commissioner David Healy. wit
headquarters at Victoria B. @, CAV
similar testimony concerning the neces
sity for guarding the northwest from
tier. He spoke especially OF the dan
ger from an invasion of Japanese cool
les. He said this threat had been TEN
porarily averted by an edict issued b
the Japanese emperor. but he pre-
dicted that as soon as the Japanes
authorities learn of the ease with whic
immigrants from European countrie
find access to the United States, the
viii demand privileges the same a
those granted 70 those countries.
H. II. Fuller of the Brotherhood c
Locomotive Engineers and James 4
Sullivan. representing the cloth en-
graveTs and printers. asked for III
passage of the bill as it stands. an
Richard K. Campbell. chief inspecto
of the immigration bureau suggested
number of amendments looking to tn
Improvement of the administra tiv
features OF the bill
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