Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-01-24
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Commissioned General. keefe
| Submits Annual Report :.
Of Department :
BY Associated Press.

WASHINGTON, Jan. A.-Many
Chinese laborers have foiled the
/ United States immigration authorities
within the past year, gaining admis.
sion to the county the guise Of
. merchants, students, or teachers, &C
cording to the annual report Of
Daniel ]. Keefe, commissioner gen
eral Of immigration. ,ts.t..1s:zss~s1 ..
MI. Keefe calls attention to "the
unsatisfactory condition Of the So
called Chinese exclusion laws, and the
necessity for extensive changes in
the the system under which it IL
sought to prevent the Introduction Of
Chinese laborers into tie country,
and to make easy the coming and
going Of classes which the law does
not intend to exclude"
The report shows hat during the
fiscal year 1, O3o; 800 aliens, Of various
nationalities, entered tne country.
VI, t00O0 UO4JOSO CAuA0 AOA C01kpO10Ay
pUposes only. During the same
period 51S;915 aliens left the United
States, Of whom 222,549 were tempor:
cry departures. The net gain in pop.
ulation by immigration therefore was
612,085. r.. 4. 2
The Commissioner General sur
gests that there be applied TO aliens
coming to perform labor Q physical
standard similar to that required OF
recruits tor the Navy. .~
1t also is suggested that the law be
made much more rigid with respect
to induced immigra ation, and that the
penal provisions b. stxAngthsued. b
n phase Of Induced immigration
which has been rapidly Increasing
consists Of the practice OF certain cor
porations ip the middle and far west
to employ Mexican laborers. Thous-
ands sof these laborers are annually
induced to come into the United
States, says the report, not by direct
means which can be made the basis
of q prosecution, but by indirection
and salbterfuge-by disseminating In
Mexico general information to the
effect that work can be secured by
crossing the border and applying to
labor agencies located on the Ameri-
can side who are engaged in securing
laborers for the railroad companies,
mine operators and others the cost
Of their procurement being deducted
from the frst wages earned by this
cheap class Of unskilled laborers.
Every possible effort has been exerted
to control this situation, but with only
fair success.
It ts sworn that during the year
4,281 Japaneee were admitted to the
mainland and 2,159 to Hawaii. Com
pared with the proceeding year there
was an increase of 65 per cent for
the mainland and Al per cent for
Hawaii. Regarding Japanese Of the
laboring classes to whom the most
interest attaches. only 732 were ad.
mitted to the mainland and 1,74O to
Hawaii, while 1881 departed from
tho mainland and 1859 from Hawaii.
The methods adopted by Chinese to
evade the exclusion law are 30 ex-
tenstve and complicated as to beggar
description. They extend all the way
from crossing the land boundaries In
sealed freight cars or being packed
away In the holds of vessels and land
ing under cover of darkness.
Two favorite devices for introduce
ing young coolies consist Of the claim
tast the applicant is the minor son
Of q merchant. or was born in this
country or is the son born abroad OF
a Chinaman in this country and there
fore q citizen; and although the OH
Gers may be morally certain these
claims are false, it Is dimcult to
dispeove them OF minor sons" 433
entered during the year; and OF
natives" 1855. Most Of these are
ordinary, coolies. Regarding those
who have entered on claims OF citi4en-
ship, It IL she wn that the average for
the past three years has been ], AZ
per yehr. Using these figures ~ .
basis. it 10 calculated that, unless the
law 10 strengthened in some manner
or present conditions materially
change, the next d~cade Will witness
the entry to tre United States, on
citizenship claims alone, Of over 50,-
900 Chinese.
ARRANGING foN FAIR.