The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-12-26
Every Efort Will Be Made
to Render the Roal to
Citizenship More Difficult
HoWELL's COMMITTEE WORKS
GREAT UNANIMITY OF OPINION
ON THE PROPERTY OF PI.Ac-
ING INSURANCE UNDER FED
ERAL CONTROL.

WASHINGTON, D. G., Dec. 26. 1905.
Strong sentiment in favor Of amending
the phesent lax naturalization laws was
found to exist when a meeting of the
House committee on immigration and
naturalization was held yesterday after
noon. Representative Benjamn F. How
ell, of New Jersey. is the chairman Of
the committee The new committee is
composed of fourteen members. That of
last year only had eleven Representa-
tives ON it. There are only six Repre-
sentaitves on the committee this year
who We're on in the last Congress. They
are Howell, of New jersey, the chair
man; Adams, of Pennsylvania; Gardner,
of Massachusetts; Bonynge, of Colorado:
all Republicans, and Rupert, of New
York. a Democrat. The new members
of the committee are Wood, of New Jer-
sly; Bennett, of New York. and Hayes,
of California, Republicans; Burnett, of
Alabama; Ellerbe, of South Carolina; !;
Moore, of Texas. and Bell, of Georgia,
1 Democrats. This makes nine Republi-
cans and Eve Democrats.
The committee has decided to take up
the subject of naturalization at its first
meeting in January, which will be on
Tuesday, January 16. The chairman
was also instructed to introduce the bill
which was recommended by the commits
sion which made thorough inyest,ga
/ ton of the naturalization frauds and rec
commended bill which, it is believed,
will check the gross frouds that are per-
-netrated in all of the larger cities of the.
country. Hearings on the matter of
naturalization will be held for three sue
cessiye meetings, after which the subject
of immigration will be taken up.
There are already large number Of
bills before the committee. That of Mr..
Hayes, of California, is likely to give the
steamship companies considerable com
cern. 1t provides for the payment of a
head tax of twenty dollars for each alien
allowed to come into this country, There
was no general expression Of the men-
bers of the committee as to what kind
/ of legislation would be recommended
but it was dent that there was
strong sentiment that it would be good
policy to yield to the general demand
that is evident throughout the ecun Try
for some measure that will check mater
tally the influx of the foreigners into this
| country 1t is safe to assume that there
viii be an immigration bill this Congress,
and it viii be a measure that Will shut
out several thousands of the aliens that
are admitted under the present laws
| That every bin having for its purpose
the supervision of insurance will be thor
oughly inspected for fearsn may have. a
"Senegamb;an in the woodpile'' il as
sured. There are lot of meSa in Con-
gress who are skeprieal about the sin
cerity of the insurance companies in their
advocacy of Federal control. They fear
that after all, when the law is enacted,
there may be some Joker" which the in
surance magnates have secreted away in
some obscure paragraph Of the bin,
which, later on, viii practically nuify
the effect of any legislation that may be
enacted
| There is surprising unanlmity of sem
timent regarding the control Of insurance
| by the Federal government. The sPresi-
dent wants it, the insurance men favor
| it and the legislators are all fighting for
time to declare their views in favor Of
the plan. And vet, there is hesitaicy
ais to what the outcome of the movement
may be. 1t is pointed out that there Is a
big difference between corporation act
ing under STATE charter and corpora
ton licensed by the Federal government,
Once the insurance companies become
the quasi wards of the Federal govern
megt, on a par with the national banking
system, it is feared by some Of the con-
servatioye men in Congress that the cor
poratiors win get the lions share Of
benefit in this new relation.
! By vote Of Z to 8 the ways and
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