Arizona republican., 1910-02-16
For the Restriction of Alien
 Immigration BUT NOT EASILY ENFORCED
Commissioner Keefe Sug- gests Only Readjustment of Machinery. His Report Deals Also With White Slave Traffic

Washington. Feb. 15.-Not further restriction. but merely to make possi- ble such restriction as the existing law intends but has not acomplished. is the object of a proposed new imn1i- grafton law recommended by Daniel J Keefe. the commissioner general of immigration in his annual report for the fiscal year 1909. It is proposed to accomplish this by codifying, ar ranging in logical sequence and strengthening at their weak points. all existing laws on the general subject of Immigration and Chinese exclu- sion.
 Some of the principal suggestions arc:
 So defining the term alien as to leave no doubt that it includes all persons not citizens. extending the contract labor provisions to forbid and penalize the inducement of im- migration by false as well as genuine promises of employment. penalizing an attempt to import foreign laborers. and permitting the importation of alien skilled laborers. if labor. of like kind unemployed. can not be found here. only. if the consent of the sec retary of commerce and labor is ob- tained in advance; increasing the fine against steamship companies for talk iRs on board. dangerously diseased aliens from s1O0 to s20e.
 MT Keefe believes the time is ripe for the adoption of even stricter meas ures and suggests that a proposal worthy of careful thought is that all male aliens between Is and 50 be-re- guired to pass a physical examination equal to that observed for army re- cruits.
 Touching the white slave" traffic the report sets out that a 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 seduction and distribution of alien women and girls who enter regularly. and also to some extent of American girls. The federal officers have not discovered positive evidence of the ex- istence9o of a syndicate for those nc farious purposes. but there is among those who conduct the business certain esprit de corps, and there arc in several cities clubs and headquar- te-s where they conGregate-,.
 Tn some cities. it is declared. the traffic is connected with local political conditions and some of the municipal authorities are implicated pr other wise helpless to assist in eradicatinS the evil The federal governments powers, it is stated. are so limited as to make it essential, if any marked progress is to be expected. that the states and cities shall awake to the seriousness of the situation and exer- else their undoubted authority to put down the evil.
 During the year there was marked increase in deportations as q result of the campaign against the traffic. The provisions on this subject in the bill submitted by Mir Keefe to carry out his recommendations are in principle the same as in the bill which already has passed the house except that they do not go so far in the features af fecting interstate regulation of the practice
 Qualification is expressed as q result of the experiment in immigration control as affecting the Japanese. constituted by law. prolamations and regulations following the anti-Jap- ane agitation in California several years ago.
 There has been material reduction in both the number of Japanese sd- mitted and deported. Tn 1908. 954t Japanese were admitted 10 continental United States and S69i to Hawaii. while for 1909 the corresponding fig ures are 24S2 and 1893 The number admitted to the mainland and Hawaii was only about ? per cent and 17 per cent. respectively. of the numbers for 1908
 Contrary to the general impression Chinese admitted to the United States have increased during the past four years and MT. Kcefe is pessimistic re- garding the operation of the law. He concludes that the system of exoIu- sion and expulsion afforded by it. is but lilly adopted for either purpose He says:
 Despite all that is said and all that is done. the bureau is always confident at the close of any year that many Chinese of the excluded classes have evaded the border officers however vigilant they may have been. have smuggled themselves or been snug gied ashore in seaports as sailors or stowaways. or have by fraud and per jury managed to land in an appar-
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