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

duty Of the proper immigration officials
to go or to send competent assistant
to the vessel and there inspect all such
aliens, or said immigration officials
may order a temporary removal OF
such aliens for examination at des.
ignated time and place, but such tenn
porary removal shall not be considered
a landing, nor shall It relieve the trans
portation lines, masters, agents, own.
ers, or consignees Of the vessel upon
which said aliens are brought to any
port of the United States from any of
the obligations which, in case such
aliens remain on board, would, under
the provisions of this act, bind the
said transportation lines, masters,
agents, owners, or consignees: Pro
vided, That where removal is made
to premises owned or controlled by
the United States, and transportation
lines, masters, agents, owners, or con-
signees, and each of them, shall, so
long as detention there lasts be re-
lieved of responsibility for the safe
keeping of such aliens, etc"
Medical Inspection.
The following amendment to sec
lions sixteen and 10 were agreed to-:
Medical officers of the United
States Public Health and Marine Hos
pital Service, who have had especial
training in the diagnosis of insanity
and mental defects, shall be detailed
for duty or employed at all large ports
Of entry, and such medical officers
shall be provided with suitable facili
ties for the detention and examination
of all arriving aliens in whom insanity
or mental defect is suspected, and the
exclusive services of interpreters
shall be provided for such examina.
tons"
Every alien who msy not appear tC
the examining immigrant inspector al
the port of arrival to be clearly and
beyond a doubt entitled to land shall
be Detained for examination in rela
ton thereto by a board of special in
quiry. On such examination by the
board Of special inquiry the alien shall
have the right to be represented by
counsel or other advisor, The de
cision Of the immigrant inspector, II
favorable to the admission of any alien
shall be subject to challenge by any
other immigrant inspector, and such
challenge shall operate to take the
alien whose right to land is so chal
lenged before a board of special in
quiry for its investigation"
mo alien certified, as provided il
section sixteen of this act, to be suf
fering from tuberculosis in any form
or from a loathsome or dangerous con
tagious disease other than one of quar-
antineable nature, shall be permitted
to land for medical treatment thereo
in any hospital in the United States
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not develop until after embarkatiol
on the ship or other conveyance from
which the alien is seeking to land and
in the opinion of the Secretary o
Commerce and Labor, such treatmen
is imperatively required IS a measur
of humanity, in which event authorit
therefor may be granted, the expense
however, not to be borne by the Gov
eminent"
Aliens UnIawfuIIy Entering.
The following amendments to sec
tions twenty and twenty-one wer
made:
Sec 20. That any alien who sha
enter the United States in violatio
Of law; any alien who within thre
years after entry becomes a publ
charge from causes existing prior
the landing; except as hereinafter pr,
vided, any alien who is hereafter sci
fenced to Imprisonment for ter
of one year or more because of CO..
viction in this country of a crime i
volving moral turpitude, committe
within five years after the entry
the alien to the United States, etc"
Sec. 20. That wherever an alie
shall have taken up his permane
residence in this country, and shs
) have filed his declaration of intentit
: to become citizen, and thereaft
shall send for his wife or minor ch
dren to join him, If said wife or any
said children shall be found to be
fected with any contagious diLordt
such wife or children shall be heI
under such regulations as the Secl
tary of Commerce and Labor shall pl
scribe. until it shall be determin
whether the disorder will be cas-
durable or whether they can be pu
mitted to land without danger to 9th
persons; and they shall not be eth
admitted or deported until such fa'
. have been ascertained; and if It sh
be determined that the disorder