The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-09-15

arc otneTMAsh VuhNneu AoI humAhhiVh
under the terms Of the bill. IL VIII at
once DC seen that this does not toaeh
the case Of aliens already resident here,
since they are provided with no ccrtih.
cate Of admission 10 deposit. Mat.y Of
the provisions Of the bill, however,
seem TO indicate that no alien may re
turn unless possessing all the lialiaea-
tions. Should this be the construction
placed upon IL by the court, no Asialic
could go to his own country aud return
here.
While Chinese would be more re-
stricted in the last mentioned respect
than they are now, should the prob
able construction be given to the act,
they would in some respects be benefit
ed. The provisions concerning citizen
ship have quite long list of excepted
classes. Government officers, ministers
or religious teachers, missionaries, law
yers, physicians, chemists, engineers,
teachers students, authors, editors,
journalists, merchants, bankers, capital
lists, and travellers for Curiosity or
bleas1re, and their legal wives or their
children under sixteen years of age
who shall accompany them or who sub
seuuently may apply for admission to
the United States, may come to the
United States irrespective of eligibility
for citizenship. The status under
which they gain admission mist, how
ever. be maintained during their resi-
dence; otherwise they will be deport-
ed.
On Probation.
An interesting provision, placing
aliens on probation as to good behavior,
is found in one of the sections of the
bill. Any alien who within FIVE years
from the time of his arrival, is SEN
fenced to Imprisonment to term of
one year or more, because of conviction
in this country of the crime involving
moral turpitude, committed within five
years after the entry of the alien to
the United States, must, on the expira-
ion of his sentence be deported. This
provision is not restricted to sentences
in the federal courts, but covers those
of any court. Some relief is afforded
in n provisO that deportation shall moi
follow where the offender shall have
been hardened, or where the court in
hicting the sentence shall, at the time
of imposing judgment, make recon
mendation to the secretary of com
merce and labor that deportation shall
not follow.
The act is quite clear on one elias
: of undesirables, and settles beyond an.
! question the right of the government
/ to deport any alien, no matter wha
8 the date of the arrival of such alleI
for indulging in immoral practices
$ specifically provides for the deporta
r ton, irrespective of the time OF thei
a entry into the United States, OF alle
t prostitutes, persons connected with tn
Y management of house of PROSECUTION
4 persons deriving benefit from any par
: Of the earnings of any prostitute, an
any aliens employed by, in, or IN con
8 management of house of PROSTITUTION
q or music or dance hall or other plae
o of amusement or resort habtually FIRE
I olented by prostitutes, or where pros
n titutes gather, or aliens who in an
n wav assist, protect, or promise to pre-
l. tect from arrest any prostitute.
10 Marine Detectives,
y Boats bringing aliens ii the Unite
,s States in large numbers may be con
=. pelled to carry officials designated b
!. the department of commerce and labd
!. during their recruiting voyages Thi
/ provision is probably placed in the aC
with particular reference to Hawall.
In a general way the provisions
the act concerning steamship companie
n are much stricter, and IN some
i. stances the fines to be imposed al
ii increased over those under the exsnn
10 law.
10 The outcome of the present immigr
l. tion hill is one for surmise merely, p'
IL if the utterances of public men and pa
le congresses are of any significance VIVA
% ever. fairly definite idea may be gat
r. cred of what the law will contain
i. finally enacted. The bill itself is Il
" outcome of the Investigations made /
a the Immigration commission, provide
"a by the act of congress of 1907. Wh'
A. tho latter was passed it was general
M understood that when the eommssi'
4 made its fnai report, eomprehensl
AZ hill would be introduced emboding I
/, result of the labOFs of the commlsslo
-, That some act relative to immigrati
viii be passed during the coming 81
H. sion is reasonably certain. This won
- atpear TO be so, not only from the l
= eessitv for revision of existing lay
y hut also from the fact that the comi
n session of congress will be the last
% before the presidential election.
OF Throughout the discussions during t
on extra session of congress just clos
nc TEEN with charges from Democrat
81 spellbinders that, while the Republic
'r party ostensibly sought to prote
nd American labor from competition wi
M, poorly paid foreign labor, yet, und
~ the immigration law, cheap ,ap1T !,
re permitted to be brought to the Unit
all States and to compete here. To tai
ar of this nature frequent replies W.
Ter made. which indicated a desire to
i'm model immigration laws along resti
TO tive lines. UnquestiOnably both parti
it'll while perhaps really endeavoring
BIO. reach a correct solution of the veS
zen immigration problem, will have at le
one eve on the effect which any civ
law may produce on the labor vote
fer Congressional Debate.
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