The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-05-25
CheIan County.
CRIMINALS SENT TO AMERICA.
Austrian Officials Arrest and Harass
American Agent.

NEW YORY, May 25.-The arrest
of Marcus Brauen, the secret immi-
grafton agent of the United States
government in Budapest, is giving the
officials of the country no little con-
Germ.
The case is developing features of
grave International Importance. The
state department has been made aware
| that the arrest of Brauen is but the
elimination of a long series of antag-
onistic operations in which he was
trailed over the continent for months
by spies acting in the interest of sew
eral foreign governments, which made
a practice of flooding the United States
with the criminal population of Eu-
rope.
On the 10th of last October Brauen
entered his room in the Hungarian
Hof in Budapest, and discovered
Hungarian detective tampering with
his mail.
Naturally there was a fight. Brauen
endeavored to protect the sanctity of
mis- personal property, and the detec-
tive trying to do what he was sent to
do, namely, to inform himself of the
extent of Brauen's Investigations of
the shameful collision of the foreign
authorities with the enforced immiga-
ton of criminals to this country.
Brauen was examined on the follow
ing day and fined $40 as salve to the
dignity of the gendarmerie. He pro-
tested to the department of commerce
and labor and after some delay the
state department has taken the case
up.
The state of affairs in the foreign
immigration centers of Europe as out
lined by Brauen in mis- last report to
the department of commerce and la
Dor, may we'll cause concern both at
home and abroad.
This report is known to have been
laid before President Roosevelt year
ago, but he apparently knows nothing
of it, as he made inquiries concerning
it some months ago.
The gist of the emigration condi-
tons abroad, as outlined by Mr.. Brau-
en- in his report, are as follows:
Tens of thousands of foreigners are
permitted to emigrate to this country
without the fumigation of their bag
gage as provided by law.
The organized gangs of crooks who
| connive at this even stamp the emf
grants belongings with counterfeit
government labels and counterfeit
| United States consular stamps, indi-
eating that their baggage has been
properly fumigated.
These counterfeits are accepted at
Ellis Island without question and lug
gage from European centers scourged
with bubonic plague, cholera trachoma,
smallpox, and the germs of deadly fe-
vers, are permitted to enter our ports
daily.
For this counterfeiting the Italian
gangs in particular charge five lire or
one dollar.
In several of the European countries
it is the custom to promise criminals
immunity from punishment if they will
emigrate to this country, or if their
relatives will send them here.
All these things nave been brought
out in reports of Mr.. Brauen to the
department of commerce and labor.
He has shown Commissioner Sergent
and incidentally President Roosevelt
that one out of every ten immigrants
to this country is either a criminal or
is otherwise undesirable.
The awful horror of this situation
may be best realized when it is known
that immigrants are landing in this
country at the rate of thousands daily.