New-York tribune., 1909-04-06
PROTECTION FOR ALIENS
REPORT TO GOTERNOR.
Commission Suggests Department OF
Industries and Immigration.

The report Of the special commission appointed
by Governor Hughes TO investigate the condltloh Oh
immigrants Gays that the state should estaDHsn
Department OF Industries and immigration. WIN d
commissioner head who would receive q
salary of s. ooo and be assisted by two deputy com
uissioners paid :3 900 each Briefly. the work
Of the proposed department would be as follows:
To develop industries of the state by directing
immigrant laborers TO them.
To prevent congestion by getting immigrants out
OF the city.
investments and by sending immigrant laoorers 10
To collect information about industrial oppor-
tunities in other states and to fit men into occu-
To obtain instruction in English and cvics for the
immigrant in other parts Of the state such as labor
educational facilities in New York, 10 hasten his
To inspect employment agencies and labor camps
Tor immigrants so they shall not be defrauoeo OF
To provide a bureau Of registration so that hat
y arrival such record be used in enforcing
the child labor and compulsory education laws
To protect immigrants from exploitation on the
piers ferries and at the Battery while looking
for work; when banking their savings; when pur-
accused of crime. from incapable and dishonest in.
justice and from notarfes public who cheat them
with worthless deeds and papers.
may be heard and their diicuIties referred 70 the
authorities. or to persons or charities best able to
To cooperate with federal officials in deporting
institutions
The enforcement OF this act would require
appropriation OF about 100000 but 1t provides
income OF $4,000 through the licensing of
steamship ticket agents.
Louis Marshall. of this city. Is chairman OF the
commission the other members being Philip V
Danahy, of Albany, secretary; Miss Frances A.
kellor, Marcus NJ. Marks, James B. Reynolds.
Gino c. Speransa. Lillian D. Wald. Edward b
Whitney and Charles ". Larmon.
Among the principal evils Investigated and re-
ported were the private immigrant banks and
dishonest steamship ticket agents. The commission
found that from September !, 1907 to September J.
1913 there twenty-five failures Of these banks,
in which 81 45e. 295 lost the depositCrs. the
in each being only nominal. There are
about thousand Of these banks in the state
1t is recommended by the commission that one
OF two plans curb these hanks and safeguard
the depositors be adopted. The first is 10 prohibit
the acceptance OF less than 500 for deposit or
transmission except by banks now incorporated
under the present banking law. unless bond in
the penal sum OF 10000 securities for a like
sum approved by the Superintendent Of Banking
have been fled. Il is thought that this would put
out OF business many small bankers" a less
drastic plan suggested is the requirement that no
firm or individual be permitted to conduct a pri-
vate banking business unless possessed or assets
amounting to at least s250 in excess Of LA Dill
ties and that license must be procured from the
banking department after depositng such security
The commission found some three thousand .un-
authorized agents peddliBG steamship tickets, most
OF them II says being dishonest. 1t recommends
that all such agents be licensed oy the state The
frauds perpetrated by dishonest notaries caused
tn. commission to recommend that inspectors be
annointe5 TO examine the qualifications OF these
men and that the sections OF the Penal Code deal
ing with public oricers be made applicable 10 tie
rotares