The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06
IMMIGRATION MUST.
 BE RESTRICTED Commission Makes Recommen- dations to Congress
CHANGES IN THE LAW
Several Proposals Are Presented to Congress By Which Immigration May He Restricted Through
 Certain Tests

Washington, December 5.-Sentimentai consideration in restricting immigration should be wiaved in lieu of the economic problems arising from adverse effects on wages and living conditions which the large number of aliens have had in recent years by their entry into basic indus tries, according to the final report or the immigration commission transmitted to Congress today. The commission unanimously urges the restriction of un- skilled labor immigration
 The commission created under the inn migration act of 1907 expired today and tho results of the three-year investiga- tion into practically all phases of the i'm migration question make about 40 printed volumes.
 The present immigr atior movement, says the report, lis in large measure due to economic causes, but emigration from Europe is not now an absolute economic necessity and as d rule those whose emigrate to the United States are inlpe.led by desire for better condi- tions rather than by the necessity of escaping from intolerable ones.
 ''rhis fact should largely modify the ratural incentive to treat the immigra- ton movement from the s'7ndpoint or sentiment and permit its consideration y-irnarily as an economic problem"
 The commission presents for the con- sideration of Congress seve; al proposals by which restriction of immigration might be effected, including a reading and writ ing test, the exclusion of unmarried, un- skilled laborers, limitations in the num- her, arriving at any one DOT. and from particular races, as well as in the amounts of money required to be In their possession on arrival. All members of the commission do not concur in the feasibility of the reading and writing test.
 The immigrants now connng, 1t Is agreed do not furnish any more crim- inals or subjects for charity than the ratlve born, but the tenden y toward in- dustrial and city life remains unchanged in spite of the fact that statistics show the immigrants to have been more suc- cessful in agricultural pursuit. In con recton with these findings. the report urges that the division of information ip t.,e bureau of immigration be so con ducted as to cooperate with the states end various societies in moro beneficial distribution of the immigrants anpng , the agricultural sections where they arc especially needed Efforts to exclude all British East Indians, through an agree ment with Great Britain, the continuance of the present Chinese exclusion laws, as well as present regulations with regard 70 Japanese and Corean immigration, the 1. passage of the House bill for the deporta- ton of alien criminals with changes in the immigration law to make it applic- able to alien seamen and the appoint ,nent of an add iional assistont secretary Of commerce and labor to determine inn migration appeals are specifically recom rlended. 4 f--.- s4., @
 The commission, which has Teen sitting continuously since November 15 last IT. { reviewing the report consisted of Senator Dillingham; of Vermont. chairman: Sen ators Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts and LeRoy Percy of Mississippi, Repre- sentatives William s. Benrct of New York, Benjamin F. Howell of New Jersey and John L. Burnett of Alabama, Prof ]. W. Jenks of Cornell university and William R. Wheeler of California, former assistant secretary of Commerce and Labor.