The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-06
TO PUT CURB
ON IMMIGRATION
onsk'l'ed Labor From Foreign Shores
is One Thing Which Should
Be Guarded
Against.
REPORT TO CONGRESS
Commission Complies Forty Printed
Volumes, Covering All Phases
Of the Question Of
immigration.


migration should be waived 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 nv
their entry into basic industries. ac.
cording to the final report of the i'm.
migration commission transmitted ia
congress. The commission unanjmo,Is.
ly urges the restriction OF unskilled
labor immigration. The commission,
created under the Immigration act of
1907, expired today. The results of
its investigation into all phases of the
immigration question make about
forty printed volumes.
The present immigration move.
ment,' the report says, "is in large
measure due to economic causes. but
emigration from Europe is not now
an absolute economic necessity and
as rule, those who emigrate to the
United States are doing so from a de.
sire to better themselves rather than
by the necessity Of escaping from In
tolerable conditions. The fact should
largely modify the natural incentive
to treat the immigration movement
from the stand~nint of sentiment and
permit its consideration primarily as
an economic problem,
The commission presents for the
consideration OF congress several pro,
posals by which restriction of imni
grafton might be effected These in.
clude a reading and writing, test. the
exclusion of unmarried, unskilIed la.
borers, limitations in the number. ar.
irving at any one port. as we'll as the
amount of money required to be in
their possession on arrival.
The immigrants now coming. it is
agreed. do not furnish any more Grim
inals or subjects for charity than the
natiye-born, but the tendency towards
industrial and city life remains un-
changed in spite of the fact that sta
tistics show the immigrants to have
been more successful in agricultural
pursuits.
In connection with these findings,
the report urges that the division of
information in the bureau of immigra-
tion be SO conducted as to cooperate
with the states and various sections
in more beneficial distribution of the
immigrants among the agricultural re-
gions. where they are especially
needed.
Efforts to exclude all British East
Indians, through an agreement with
Great Britain. The continuance of pres
cnt Chinese exclusion laws, as we'll
as present regulations with regard to
Japanese and Korean immigration, the
passage of the house bill for the de-
portation of alien criminals with
make it applicable to alien seamen
and the appointment of an additional
assistant secretary of commerce and
labor to determine immigration ap-
peals are specifically recommended.
The commission consisted of Sena-
ator Dillingham; of Vermont, chair.
man: Senators Henry Cabot Lodge
of Massachusetts and Leroy Percy OF
Mississippi, Representatives William
S. Bennett of New York, Benjamin
F. Howell Of New Jersey and John
j.. Burnett of Alabama: Prof j. M,
jenkins of Cornell university, and
William r. Wheeler of California,
formerly assistant secretary of com
merce and labor