Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-05-25
Southern Industrial Parliament In
Washington Permanently Orga.
Mics and Elects Officers.
DISCUSSION OF IMM,GsATO on
Needs of South and tic Way TO surrly
Them Set Forth by Gustav H.
sehwab, Senator Simmons and Com
missioner General Frank p. sar
ge7nt-scarcity of Labor.
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discussion of immigration and an adj
dress ly Gustav II. Schwab of New
York. on "FOrtign Commerce AMI
Ocean Transportation" were the fcn-
lures of to,lny's sessions Of the South.
trn Industrial Parliament. The i'm
migration question was discussed by
Scnatcr Simmons, of North Carolina.
and commissioner General Frank r.
Sergeant Of the immigration bureau.
Permanent organization was effected
by the election of Governor Robert Is.
Glenn. CT North Carolina US president
anil other officers as follows:
w. c. Murphy, Washington, D. c.,
secretary.
J T.. Thax.on Columbia, S. c., trens-
urcr
| Vicc-prcsidents: Alabama. William
Richards. Huntsville; Georgia, w. o.
McGowin. Hoffman; Mississippi, lien.
ry kernoghau, Jackson; North Caro-.
Iina. II. S. Rcinhart Lincolnton South
Carolina l.. j. Watson Columbia: Ten
ncssrc, Robert Gates, Nashville; Tex.
as, J,seph Schwartz, Corsicana; Vir
gtnia. G.. L. Holland, nanvillo.
Executive coinmittec:- w. I'll rown
Ragland, Ca p. j. Holiday. Washing
ton. Ga; Miss ]. NJ S. Mccarthy.
Batcsvillo. S. c.; j. A. Brown, Chad,
lcurn. N. e; Albert Akers, Nashville.
Tenn. Il. C.. Robinson. Houston, Tex. {;
j. S. Browning. Pocahontas. Va: H.
l.. West. District of Columbia.
In the absence of Governor Glenn,
| w. 0. Mct;owi, of Georgia. presided
AS to Foreign Commerce.
Gustav II. Schwab. of New York
spoke on Foreign Commerce and I'm
migration" saying in part:
1T is no doubt fact that large
proportion of the immigration Of the
present day from Southern Europc
| shows a tendency to congregate in the
large cities of the country. The rem
| cdy for this Is an organized effort tc
properly distribute the newcomers and
to endcavor TO place them whore thcil
labor will he most productive, thus re
lieying the congestion in the large
| cities. Efforts in this direction have
been proposed by Commissioner Gen
eral of immigration Sargent in his an.
nnal report dated June Both, 1908, as
follows:
For tho purpose of distributing ar
irving aliens in accordance with the
plan already outlined, it is recommend
ed that suitable legislation be enacted
for the establishment, In connection
with the various immigration stations
more particularly the Ellis Island sta.
ton, of commodious quarters, properly
officcred. where information may be
given to the new arrivals. In such
quarters should be displayed mans OF
the different States, with descriptive
| matter as to the resources and pro.
ducts of each State, the prices of land,
the routes of travel thereto. and cost of
transportation, the opportunities for
employment inthe various skilled and
unskilled occupations, the rates of
wages paid, the cost of living, and all
| other information that would enliglten
such persons as to tho Inducements To
settlement therein offered respectively
by the various sections of tho United
states ~. in short, all OF that In.
formation furnished by some of tho
great railway lines through whose OF.
forts the territory tributary thereto has
been transformed from a wilderness
within a few years to tho abiding place
of happy and prosperous population.
81 believe that such n plan is en-
tircly practicable and that it's adop.
ton offers at once the easiest and
most efficient solution of the serious
problems presented by tho. enormous
additions of alien population to our
great cities and the resultant evils
both to the people OF this country and
| to the immigrants
"This important recommendation
which presents, j firmly believe, a prac.
teal solution Of tho problems Will,
which immigration confronts us. was
embodied In n bill known as II. r. a..
1873, introduced April 6, 1904, by the
Hon. Mr.. Aiken. of South Carolina, ell.
titled "a Bill Authorizing tho Commits.
sioner-Goncral. of Immigration, under
the direction Of the Secretary Of Com
merce and Labor, to establish In con.
nection with the immigration station
at Ellis Island nm information and dis
play bureau for tho purpose OF aiding
In the distribution OF immigrants, md