Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-16
Commissioner Keefe Would Have
Male Aliens Subjected to a
Physical Examination.
PEOPLE OF EASTERN EUROPE
Furnish CO Per Cent of Immigrants
And Raise Very Serious
Question.

washington, Feb. 15.-Not further
restriction. but merely to make possible
such restriction as the existing law in
tends, but has not accomplished. ls the
object OF a proposed new immigration
law recommended by Daniel j. Kcefe.
the commissioner general OF immigrd-
tion In his annual report for the fiscal
year 1909. 1t is proposed to accomplish
this by codifying. arranging in logical
sequence and strengthening at their
weak points all existing laws on the
general subject OF immigration and
Chinese exclusion.
Some of the principal suggestions
are:
30 defining the term allen" as 10
leave no doubt that it includes all per-
sons not citizens: extending the con-
tract labor provisions to forbid and
penalizc the inducement of immigration
by false as well as genuine promises of
employment; penalizlng an attempt to
import foreign laborers and permitting
the Importation of alien skilled labor
crs II labor of like kind unemployed
cannot be found here, only II the con-
labor Is obtained in advance; increas-
ing the fine against steamship com
panles for taking on board dangerously
diseased aliens from $100 to 500
FOR STRICTER MEASURES.
Mr. Kecfe believes the time Is ripe
for the adoption of even strictcr meas
urcs and suggests that proposal
worthy of careful thought is that all
IN q oil taafu
quired to pass physical examination
equal to that observed for army re-
crultS.
Touching the white slave" traffic.
the report sets out that special In
vestigation conducted throughout the
country and the general experience of
the year. make it apparent that an
enormous business is done in import
ing and distributing foreign women for
immoral purposes. including the seduc-
tion and distribution of alien women
and girls who enter regularly. and also
TO some extent OF American women and
girls The federal officers have not
discovered positive evidence OF the eX-
istence Of a syndicate fyr the nefarl-
Gus purposes, but there is among those
who conduct the business a certain
esprit dc corps, and there are in Sow
eral cities clubs and headquarters
where they congregate,"
In some cities, 1t is declared, the traf-
fic is connected with local political con-
ditions and some of the municipal au-
thorlties are implicated or otherwise
helpless to assist in eradicating the
evil. The federal governments powers,
1t Is statedn are so limited as to make
1t essential if any marked progress
is TO be expected, that the states and
cities shall awake to the seriousness
of the situation and eXercies their un-
doubted authority to put down the evil.
During the year there was a mark
ed Increase in deportations as a result
of the campaign against the traffic.
The provisions on this subject in the
bill submitted by Mr.. Keefo to carry
out his recommendations are in prin-
ciple the same as in the bill which
already has passed the house. except
that they do not go so far In the
features affecting Interstate regula-
ton of the practise.
AS TO JAPANESE.
Qualification Is expressed as a result
OF the experiment in immigration
control as affecting the japanese, con-
stituted by law, proclamation and reg
ulations following the anti Japanese
agitation in California several years
ago.
There has been a material reduction
IN both the number of japanese a1-
mitted and deported. In 1908. 9.5i4 Jap
anese were admitted to continental
United States and 1854 to Hnwaii while
for 1909 the corresponding figures are
2.i32 and 1893. The number admitted to
the mainland and Hawaii was only
about Is per cent and II per cent re-
spectively. OF the numbers for 1908.
CHINESE INCREASING.
Contrary to the general impression,