Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-30
fspecial to The Bulletin.l

Washington. Jan. 29.-It was SUI
posed that Connecticut was mainly
Interested in the proposed tariff legis-
lation but a letter recently received
by Senator Bulkeley would seem to
indicate that much interest is felt in
the suppression of what is termed the
white slave traffic" The senator's
correspondent said that il congress
" Guild give some time to this subject
and pass some much needed laws,
Connecticut would be willing to allow
revision of the tariff to go over for
a while.
Special Attention Given to the Sub
jeet.
The commissioner general Of immi
grafton said to your correspondent
that this was a subject of great i'm
pCrtance and that 1t had received spe-
cial attention during he past year.
In his report for the year just closed
he said: THE duty of detecting and
excluding all such aliens has been
constantly impressed upon the immi-
grafton officers stationed at the sea-
ports and along the land boundaries,
and special efforts have been directed
toward the corporation of jmnigra-
ton officials with municipal officials
in apprehending and deporting aliens
Of this class who have entered the
EOulltIN kpllAl dl u law ~ idl ~
measure of success has attended these
efforts Numerous prosecutions have
been brought against procurers and
keepers of houses OF i'll fame, and
convictions have been had in fourteen
cases, with penalties of from six
months to five years Imprisonment,
and from $50 to $1,000 fine.
Law Should Be Strengthened.
"The law regarding these moral de-
fects needs to be amended and
strengthened in several important re-
spects. In the first place, there is no
occasion with regard to this class, as
there is regarding the classes merely
physically unsOund, to fix a definite
limit within which the government can
proceed for their deportation. It is
Obvious that such persons cannot,
merely by living here for q period of
time in any way correct their moral
status at the time of entry, and the
government ought not TO be restrained
Il ON removing from this country any
anarchists, a crimic..l, or a moral de-
generate merely because such person
has been able to avoid detection for
three years.
An internations! Suppression Project.
AN international project Of ar
rangemert for the suppression of the
white slave trade traffic was, on July
25, 1902. adopted for submission to
their respective governments by the
delegates of the various powers rep
resented at the Paris conference,
which arrangement was confirmed by
formal agreement signed at Paris on
May 1s, 1904 by the governments of
Germany. Belgium Denmark, Spain,
France, Great Britain, Italy, The
Netherlands. Portugal, Russia. Swe-
den, Norway, and the Swiss federal
council. This arrangement, after hav-
ing been duly submitted to the SEN
re. was proclaimed by the president
June IS. 1893, and is printed In full
in the report OF the commissioner
general Of immigration The purpose
81 the arrangement is set forth in the
preamble, which states that the sew
eral governments, being desirous to
assure to women who have attained
their majority and are subjected to
deception or constraint. as well as mi
nor women and girls, an efficacious
protection against the criminal traffic
known under the name of trade in
white women Giraffe des blanches),
have resolved to conclude an arrange
ment with view to concert proper
measures to attain this purpose
Importation of Women and Girls.
TN addition to the amendment
above suggested, to penalize the i'm
portation of women and girls for i'm
moral purposes, irrespective Of wheth- |
er they are aliens or citizens, it would |
be highly advantageous in the endeav- |
ors to break up the white slave traf- !
nc to make ii felony, or misdemean- |
or, punishable by imprisonment for |
an alien once deported from the Unit |
ed States as a procurer of prostitutes !