The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-12-30
BY Associated Press.

president Tuesday, contains many Inn
portant recommendations for changes
and improvements in the various bu-
reaus and branches of the department
of commerce and labor.
Great popular interest attaches toI
the immigration and naturalization of
aliens, and much of the secretary's
report is devoted to that subject.
One of the hardships of the present
immigration laws, Secretary Nagel
believes, is the separation of families.
In many instances father is admitted
and his wife and children are barred
Iout after the pioneer has made home.
THE secretary believes that a more
eouitable system could be found, and
says he assumes it is the purpose of
the law to keep families together and
not to separate them. The secretary
suggests that some system by which
Inquiry should be made about the
families immigrants before fathers
and sons are admitted, should be put
into practice
Unless immigration can be diverted
from Ellis Island or reduced, there is
need for additions to the facilities
there. At no port is there any ade-
ouate provision for handling immi-
grants, declares the secretary, al
though at most places sites have al
/ ready been bought by the government
Y for buildings to be used for these pur'
4 poses
Y Stricter regulation Of steamship
r companies in the immigrant traffic is
/ urged in the report and system oi
: fines for companies which bring In
/. sane immigrants or those afflicted will
n contagious diseases is proposed TIT
e secretary declares that the immigra
{ Ition officials even find it unwise t
It allow alien employees of steamships t.
e land on American soil without apply
4 ing the usual examination to them.
@ While the fiscal year 1910 brough
b. a total of 1,19S,037 immigrants to tn
United States, the prediction is mad
d that the coming year will approac
Id the banner year 1907 when more tha
al l .285 900 aliens came in. OF all thos
le who came this year more than 274,0O
n admitted they had been assisted D
re friends. All the immigrants brougf
lg a total of $2S,197,745 with them, a pc
ds capita of about $27. The bulk of tn
We immigration continues to be draw
re from southern and eastern Europ
he Two per cent of all who applied Il
Id admission were turned back. The
IN numbered 24,27O in all as again
to 1O,411 in 1909. Though no increase
attempts to import contract labor
he apparent, 1,7OO aliens were deportt
I'll as such during the year. Stricter lie
ed islatiom to govern that class of INN
art grafton is recommended.
,es Secretary Nagel refers briefly
M violations of the white slave law al
declares that immigration officials a
zen able to cope with only a fraction
of the violations. If the traffic Is to
nst stamped out, he says, the state a
the municipalities must take more
900 tive interest.
md Promotion of employees by me
nix and not entirely by scholastic exam
rer, alton is treated at length by Secreta
SUI Nagel who believes scholastic exa
ank ination may be proper when an apl
ind cant enters the government servi
the The conditions within the seryi
The however, he thinks, call for an
abb tirely different test for promotion.
col Employees work under the dir
hat tion and observation of chiefs OF
not reaus and divisions and their capaci
efficiency and resourcefulness
mo- Judged by them" says the secreta
end 'In the final analysis their rights
'- advancement should be wholly det
mined by the opinions of these SUI
vising officials, provided such oplnp
are well informed, judicious and
scientiously reached"
III Secretary Nagel puts himself
Ill record in favor of some sort of SUI
annuation or retirement for clerks.
believes compulsory retirement
age or disability would be an econo
rnor cal measure for the government
enty expresses the opinion that If sala
sew. of clerks are to remain as they
onal the government can afford to prov
pitol a straight pension without contr
,tion ton from employees.
,nse The work of the bureau of corp
and tions has been highly important
ing the year, and probably this me