The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-05


the Senate on February Is action was
taken on many amendments. The fol
lowing exclusion provisions were
agreed to:
The Excluded List.
Sec. 3. That the following classes
of aliens shall be excluded from ad.
mission into the United States: All
idiots, imbeciles, feeble-minded per.
sons, epileptiCs, insane persons, and
pertons who have been insane within
five years previous; persons who have
had two or more attacks of insanity
at any time previously; paupers; per.
sons likely to become a public charge;
professional beggars; Migrants; per.
IONS afflicted with tuberculosis in any
form or with a loathsome or dangerous
contagious disease; persons not com
pretended within any of the foregoing
excluded classes who are found to be
and are certified by the examining
surgeon as being mentally or physical
ly defective, such as mental or physic-
al defect being of a nature which is
likely to impair the ability of such
alien to earn living; persons who
have committed a felony or other
crime or misdemeanor' involving moral
turpitude; polygamists, or persons who
admit their belief in the practice of
polygamy; anarchists, or persons who
believe in or advocate the overthrow
by force or violence Of the Government
of the United States, or who believe
in or are opposed to organized govern.
ment, or all forms of law, or who advo.
cate the assassination of public Off
Gals; persons who are members OF
or affiliated with any organization en-
PERTAINING and teaching disbelief in or
opposition to snizedsgovernment, or
who advocate or teach the duty, neces-
Bity, or proprlety of the unlawful as.
saulting or killing of any officer or
officers, either of specific individuals
or of officers generally, of the Govern
ment of the United States or of any
other organized government, because
of his or their official character; prosti-
tutes, or women or girls coming into
the United States for the purpose Of
prostitution or for any other immoral
purpose; persons who procure or at
tempt to bring in prostitutes or wom-
en- or girls for the purpose of prosti-
tuition or for any other immoral pur-
pose; persons hereinafter called con-
tract laborers, who have been induced
or collected to migrate to this country
by offers or promises of employment,
whether such offers or promises are
true or false, or in consequence of
oral, written or printed,
or implied, to perform manual
labor in this country of any kind, skill
ed or unlkilled; persons who have
come in consequence Of advertisements
for manual laborers printed, pub i.3hed
or distributed in a foreign country;
persons who have been deported under
any of the provisions of this act, and
who may again seek admission within
one year from the date of such de-
portaion, unless prior to their reem-
barkation at foreign port, the Score.
tary of Commerce and Labor have con-
scented to their reapplying for admis-
sion; persons whose tickets or pas
sage is paid for with the money of an
other, or who Is assisted by others to
come, unless it is affirmatively und
shown that such person
does not belong to one Of the foregoing
excluded classes; persons whole ticket
or passage is paid for by any corpora
ton, association, society, municipality,
or foreign Government, either directly
or indirectly; stowaways, except that
any such ttowaway may be admitted
in the discretion of the Secretary of
Commerce and Labor; all chill
dren under sixteen years Of age,
by one or both
of their parents, at the discretion Of
the Secretary of Commerce and Labor
or under such regulations as he may
from time to time prescribe"
The following amendment to section
three was deferred at the request of
Mr.. Lodge:
"All male aliens sixteen years of
age or over who are physically capable
of reading and writing, but who are
unable to read or write in some
language or dialect such aliens to be
tested in this regard in accordance
with methods and 'es to be prescrib-
ed by the Secretary Of Commerce and
Labor, but an admissible alien may
bring or send for his fGther or grand
father over fifty-fve years of age, or
a son not over eighteen years Of age,
otherwise admissible, whether said
father or grandfather or son are able
to read and write or not. This pro
vision, however, shall not apply to
citizena of Canada. Newfoundland,