The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-01-10
BURNETT BILL WILL
BAR ONE QUARTER

tIOsliNLi DIt-t- Will
BAR ONE QUARTER
WASHINGTON. December est is
claimed by immigration offices. steam
ship companies and labor contractors
that the Burnett immigration Bill,
which has passed the house and is now
in the senate committee. win create an
unsurmountahle check to the labor sup.
ply of the country if the bill becomes
law.
The passage of the bill does not de-
| pend on party lines, the chief members
interested in the house being immi-
grafton restrictionists or anti-restric-
tionists, regardless of party utilization.
| Chairman Burnett of the immigration
and naturalization committee intro
| duced the amended bill at the request
| of the committee on immigration in lieu
of the bills of Mr.. Gardiner, Mr.. Hayes
and Mr.. Burnett.
The extent to which the lteracy test
would limit immigration may be in
ferred from the immigration returns of
the fiscal year ended June 80, 1910,
when the total immigration was 1,04l,-
SO. The number of these who could
ineither read nor write was 1885, 39
males and 65,l30 females. OF these only
small proportion could read but not
write, namely, 1858 males and 1888
females The nationalities that would
chiefly be affected would be South
Italians, of whom there were in 1910
70,563 males and 1880 females unable
to read or write; Polish, 29,59s and
1900; Slavs, 1l,104 and 1925, and
Ruthenians, 10000 and 2S7S. The illit.
crates over fourteen years of age ad-
mitted in 1910 were twenty-eight per
cent of the total immigrants.
In 1910 the total number debarred
, for various reasons, not illiteracy, was
, 24,27O.
During the three months July to Dc
tober of the present year 374, 3S9 immi
grant aliens were admitted and 643S
debarred The States that would fee
most the check TO immigrant labor
would be New York, which in the yeal
ending June 80, 1912, received 239, 275
7 Pennsylvania, 109, 625; Massachusetts,
: 7O,171; Illinois, 67,1ls, and New Jersey
1 472l1.
The text of the Burnett Bill is al
: follows:
GA bill to further restrict the ad
mission of aliens into the United States
''Be it enacted by the Senate an(
+ House of Representatives of the United
t ted States of America in Congress as
s sembled, that after four months from
e the approval oil this act in addition t.
S the aliens who are by law now exclud
: ed from admission into the United
:: States the following persons shall ais
be excluded from admission thereto, to
IL.
{ age, physically capable of reading, VIII,
cannot read the English language, o
the language or dialect of some othe
t country, including Hebrew or Yiddish
o Provided, That any admissible alien o
C any alien heretofore, or hereafter, legal
u ly admitted, or any citizen OIL the Uni
" ted States may bring in or send 70
J his father or grandfather over fifty-fiv
u years of age, his wife, his mother, hi
! grandmother, or his unmarried or wild
% owed daughter, if otherwise admissi
\ Bile, whether such relative can reat
or not; and such relatives shall be per
mitted to land.
"Section ?. That for the purpose o
ascertaining whether aliens can read o
not the immigrant inspectors shall b
furnished with copies of uniform slips
e prepared under the direction of tn
II secretary of commerce and labor, eac
@ containing not less than thirty no
l. more than forty words in ordinary use
4 printed in plain type in the variou
r languages and dialects of immigrants
e Each alien may designate the particu
II lar language or dialect in which he de
d sires the examination to be made, an
e shall be required to read the word
printed on the slip in such language o
dialect. No two aliens coming in tn
! same vessel or other vehicle of ear
y riage or transportation shall be teste
:, with the same slip.
T "Section 3. That the followin
g classes of persons shall be exempt fro1
l. the operation of this act, TO wit: (a) Al
h aliens who shall prove TO the satisfaC
/ ton Of the proper immigration Office
I or TO the secretary of commerce and Ia
g Dor that they are seeking admission I
o the United States solely for the pun
" pose of escaping from religious prose
i. cution; (b) all aliens in transit throug
l. the United States; (c) all aliens VIII
IS have been lawfully admitted TO tn
United States and VINO later shall go /
II transit from one part Of the Unite
g States 10 another through foreign cor
- tiguous territory.
. 'secii0n 4, That an alien refuse
>, admission 20 the United States undo
= the provisions Of this act shall be sen
" back 20 the country whence be cam
!. in the manner provided By section
4 NJ Gan act 20 regulate immigration q
4. aliens into the United states. " approx
n cd February 20, 1907 20
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