Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-02-19
CHINESE GET INTO
UNITED STATES BY
DESERVING SHIPS

Washington, Feb 15.-Commssioner-
General Caminetti of the bureau of immi-
grafton in his first annual report, sub
mitted to-day to Secretary Wilson, recon-
mended certain notifications of the Chi
nese exclusion act and expressed the opin-
ion that great care should be taken with
the seaman's bill pending in Congress,
declaring that "the seaman's bill on the
one hand and the immigration and Chi
nese exclusion laws on the other cannot
be properly enforced unless their terms
are brought into substantial practical &C
cord"
Commissioner Caminetti made no refer
ence to the general question of Asiatic I'm
migration, other than a comment on
aliens employed on vessels and what
he says Is the danger of Chinese and
other Asiatics getting in unlawfully by
serving as seamen and deserving.
The employment OF aliens on vessels
entering ports here he says. has al
ways led, directly or indirectly. to num-
erous and fragrant violations of both the
immigration and the Chinese exclusion
laws" He pointed out that during the
year between 5000 and 10000 Chinese
sailors entered ports here and the rule
of giving bond for shore leave, he de-
clared lis honored in the breach as much
as in the observance" He contended that
the law should require all Asiatics law
fully here to have a certificate of identi-
tication, by which the introduction Of
the Asatic into the country by surrepti-
tious methods would soon become too ex-
pensive to be profitable"
The report shows that 1,l97.s92 aliens
were admitted last year, more than the
total for the preceding year by 359.720,
AS to Japanese immigration, he ex-
presses doubt as to whether the pho
tograph" brides after having gone
through a marriage ceremony by proxy,
recognized as legal in Japan, are really
entitled to admission. He says he does
not believe "any such marriage is bind
ing upon the United States in the ad-
mlnstration of immigration laws; and
also that there is no treaty with Japan
or other arrangement whatsoever, that
provides for the recognition by the Uni
ted States of the so-called marriage of a
woman in Japan with man who may
he in the United States at the alleged
date Of the same" He says there seems
to be need OF repetition and emphasis Of
the statement in the former commissioner
generals report, which declared that the
practice of admitting such women "opens
the way for the Introduction into con-
! tinental United States of large bodies of
common laborers-females, it Is true, but
none the less competitors of the labor
ers of this country and this practice
must necessarily result in constituting a
| large native-born Japanese population
persons who. because OF their birth on
American soil, will be regarded as Am
/ erlcan citizens, although their parents
cannot be nAturalized,
Despite the fact that everything posi-
BILE under existing law Is being done. said
Mr. Caminetti, to prevent the entry OF
Chinese not entitled to be here, Chinese
laborers are constantly gaining admission.
in the gulse OF minor sons of merchants,
students natives, or sons of natives
mo one would dispute the propriety and
adNlsabillty OF permitting young men OF
the Chinese race to obtain higher edu-
cation In this country" he adds, pro
vided the privilege is so safeguarded as to
prevent Its abuse But this claim of a
student status. now adopted much more
Frequently than formerly, is often used as
la mere cloak fer the Introduction into