The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-01-24
EXCLUSION LAW EVADEO
BY CHINESE LAB0RERs
Report Shows that More Than Mil
lion Aliens Entered this Coun-
try During Last Year.
Associated Press Special.

Washington, Jan. 24.-Man
= Chinese 1aborers have foiled tn
United States immigration author
tiles within the past year gaming ad
MISSION to the country in the guis
Z iof merchants, students. or teachers
, according to the annual report o
Daniel J. Keefc. commissioner gen
eral of immigration.
Mr.. Keefe calls attention to the
unsatisfactory condition OF the So
called Chinese exclusion laws, and
the necessity for extensive changes
in the system under which 1t is
sought to prevent the introduction
of Chinese laborers into the country
| and to make easy the coming ana
going of classes which the law does
not intend to exclude.
The report shows that during the
last fiscal year 100000 aliens, of
various nationalities, entered the
country. Of these 151 ,573 came for
temporary purposes only. During
the same period 51S,215 aliens left
the United States, of whom 222,-
$40 were temporary departures.
The net gain in population by immi-
grafton, therefore was 512.0S5.
The commissioner general sugf
gests that there be applied to aliens
coming to perform labor physical
l standard similar to that required OF
4 recruits for the navy
a II ts Also suggested that the Law
Abe made much more rigid with res
.lpeet to induced Immigration, an
that the penal provisions be strens
thened.
or phase of induced immigratio
y which has been rapidly increasin
consists of the practice of certai
II west to employ Mexican labcrers
Thousands of these laborers are an
nually induced to come into tn,
United States. says the report, no
? by direct means which can be made
the basis of prosecution, but b.
indirection and subterfuge-b
/ disseminating in Mexico genera
J. information 10 the effect that worl
g can be secured by crossing the Dor
der and applying to labor agencies
located on the American side Wit
? are engaged in securing laborers 70
the railroad companies, mine opera
tors and others, the cost of thei
procurement being deducted iron
their first wages earned by thi
cheap class OF unskilled laborerf
Every possible effort has been eS
- erted to control this situation. bu
with only fair SUCCESS
1t IL shown that during the yea
l4,2s2 Japanese we're admitted TO III
mainland and 2,159 10 Hawaii Con
81 pared with the preceding year theI
y MAS an increase Of a. per cent II
~ the mainland and Al pet cent II
- Hawaii, Regarding JapaDase ~ ~
laboftnk GLASSES 10 whom the mo
interest attaches, only 73Z were ~
~ iuittea 10 the mainland and ia
~ 10 Hawaii while 2.3al dephrts
~ from the mainland aud ! $50 fro
On Hawaii
The methods adopted by ChiDci
to eyade the exclusion law are /
VI extensive aud complicated hH 10 bel
ho gar description, They extend all u
:" why tIblH tNbHhlHE wv lhAH bNhiiH
Al RIGS In sealed freight ears or b.
y ing packed away In the holds I
vcsaels and landing under cover I
" darkness.
he Two favorite devices for introdu
he Ing young coolies consist OF II
OF claim that the applicant Is the m
IL nor son OF a merchant. or was Dor
In this country. or is the son Dor
abroad OF Chinaman IN this coui
rd try and therefore a citizen; and a
m though the officers may be moral
A. certain these claims are false, 1t
AZ difficult TO disproye them, or IN
IN nor sons" i3S entered during tn
yoar: and of natives" 1,hS5, MOI
of these are ordinary coolies, RI
garding those who have entered o
"a claims of citizenship Il Is shown ths
VI the average for the past three year
" has been | ,422 pei year usIn
these figures as basis. II Is calct
lated that, unless the law is strengt
oned some manner or preser
conditions materially change, th
le next decade viii witness the entr
N TO the United states. ON eitiaenshi
" claims alone, over 10000 Chinese