The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-06-14
THE EDUCATIONAL 7ES7
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THE sENATE BILL

( THE SENATE BILL.
Section 20. Authority is hereby given
the Commissioner General of Immigra-
tion to establish, under the direction
and control of the Secretary of Com
! merce and Labor, division of informa-
ton in the Bureau of immigration. 1t
shall be the duty of said division to
! promote beneficial distribution of
| aliens admitted into the United States
among the severa States and Terri
| tories desiring immigration. When any
state or territory, or any corporation
I or association maintaining an immigra-
, ton bureau in any State or Territory,
| appoints and maintains at its own ex-
pense an agent to represent it at any
| of the immigrant stations of the United
| states such agent shall, under regdla-
| tions prescribed by the Commissioner
1 General of immigration subject to the
approval of the Secretary of Commerce
and Labor, have access to aliens who
| have been admitted to the United
| states for the purpose of presenting,
/ either orally or in writing, the special
| inducements offered gy such State or
| Territory to aliens to settle therein,
and the Commissioned General of In
migration may, when practicable, pro-
! vide space at the various immigrant
stations for displays by such agents of
| the resources and products of their res
! peCtive States and Territories. While
ON duty at any immigration station
such agent shall be subject to all the
| 11t nv
missioner General of immigration, who
| with the approval of the Secretary Of
Commerce and Labor, may, for viola
| ton of any of such regulations, deny
| to the agent guilty of such violation
any of the privileges herein granted.
| Twenty thousand dollars or so much
| thereof as may be necessary, is hereby
! appropriated from the immigrant fund
to carry the provisions of this section
into effect
Section 20. That in addition to the
persons excluded under the act ap-
proved March three, nineteen hundred
and three, entitled "And Act to regu-
late the immigration of aliens into the
/ United States" admission into the
| United States shall be denied to- All
| persons over sixteen years Of age and
physically capable of reading who can
not read the English language or some
other language; but an admissible inn
migrant or "a person now in or here
after admitted to this country may
bring i'm or send for his wife, his chill
dreu under eighteen years of age, and
his parents or grand parents over yfift
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missiblc whether they are SO able to
read or not
That for purpose of testing the
ability Of the immigrant to read, the
inspection officers shall he furnished
with copies of the Constitution of the
United States printed on uniform paste
board slips, each containing not less
than twenty nor more than twenty-five
words of said Constitution printed in
the various languages OF the immi-
grants in double small plea type. Each
| immigrant may designate the language
i'm which he prefers the test shall be
made, and shall be required to read
the words printed ON a slip i'm such Ian
guage. No two immigrants listed on
the same manifest shall be tested with
the same slip. An immigrant failing
to read as above provided shall not be
admitted, but shall be returned to the
country from which he came at the
expense of the steamship or railroad
company which brought him. Provided
That all persons, whether able to read
the English language or some other
language or not able to do so, who shall
enter the United States except at the
seaports thereof, or at such other place
or places as the Secretary of Commerce
and Labor may from time to time de-
signate, shall be adjudged to have en-
tered the country unlawfully and shall
be deported as by law provided