The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-02-27
PICTURE BRIDES
ARE Threatened.
Caminetti Says Their Admission
Opens the way to Abuse Of
immigration Laws.

i WASHINGTON, February 15.--Com
missioner General Caminetti of the bu-
reau of immigration, in his first annual
report, submitted today to Secretary
Wilson, recommended certain modiica-
tions of the Chinese Exclusion Act, and
expressed the opinion that great care
should be taken with the Scaman's Bill,
pending In congress, declaring that
"the sesman's Bin, on the one hand,
and the immigration and Chinese ex.
clusion laws on the other, cannot be
properly enforced unless their terms
are brought into substantial and prac.
teal accord
i Commissioned caminetti, speaking Of
the general question OF Asiatic immi.
lrration, comments on ''aliens employed
on vessels and what he says IA tho
danger OF Chinese and other, Asiatics
reaching the country nnlawfuIly by
serving as seamcn and DESERVING.
Photograph Brides Status Dubious.
As to Japanese immigration, he ex.
presses doubt whether the ssphoto-
graph brides, after having gone
through marriage ceremony by proxy.
recognized as legal in Japan, are really
entitled to admission. He says he does
not believe fany such marriage is bind.
ing on the United States in the admin
istration of immigration laws; and also
that there is no treaty with japan, or
other arrangement whatsoever, that
provides for the recognition by the
United states of the so-called marriage
OF woman in japan with a man who
may be in the United States at the al.
legged date of the same. ,,
He says there seems to be need of
, repetition and emphasis of the state.
ment In the ex-commissioner general 3
report. which declared that the practise
or admitting such women "OPENS the
way for the introduction into CONT.
mental United States of large bodies of
common laborers--females, il is true.
but none the less competitors of the
laborers of this country; and this prac.
tise must necessarily result in eonst.
tuting large native-born Japanese
population-persons who because of
their birth on American soil will be
regarded as American citizens, although
their parents cannot be natural zed. ~,
Chinese Coming In.
Despite the fact that everything DOS.
sible under existing law is being done,
SAID Mr.. Caminetti to prevent the en-.
Try OF Chinese not entitled TO be here,
chinese laborers are constantly gain.
ing admission, in the guise of minor
! sons OF merchants, students, natives or
sons of natives. - EI1.'D =.
II NO one would dispute the propriety
and advisability Of permitting young
men OF the Chinese race to obtain n
higher education in this conntry,'' ne
adds, provided the privilege is SO
saIeguarded as to prevent its abuse.
But this claim of a student status, now
adopted much more frequently than
formerly, is often used as a mere cloak
: for the introduction into this country,
in violation of the spirit Of the law,
Of young Chinese laborers. - =
AS to those Chinese who come IN un.
der the " United States citizen class,
being returning natives who had been
born here or born abroad of native.
born parents, the commissioner general
says there were 1856 of that class add.
ed in the past four years, and added
Thus it may be demonstrated that
the number of United States citizens
OF the Chinese race is increasing at a
rapid rate, although persons of the
Monaghan race cannot acquire citizen
ship by naturalization. The present
law permitting United States Commis-
sioners to make citizens, should DO re.
pealed. .',.% ~. ,s. .,@r.A
n Safeguard Is Suggestion is
, American citizenship is .proad
privilege of inestimable value and of
the highest dignity, and shonld not, be
granted except upon clear evidcncdsuf
right thereto, and the title. to same
passed upon either by court of record
or by the Bureau of Immigration, with
the approval of the department Of la
Dor. +" a ". ..'a'' .E. s.@h
AS to deportation eases, the commits
sioner-general declared figures showed
the Supreme Court y decision of 1912
that - Chinese, like all other aliens who
enter snrreptitiOusly, are subject to de-
pOrtation by the administrative pro-
! cesses provided in the general immi-
grafton laws, "was now producing most
valuable results. He contends that the
three-year limitation on the right to
deport Chinese, IL here unlawfully,
should be removed in SO far as 1t ar
fects Chinese y
The employment of aliens on vessels
entering ports here, he says, Hhas al.
ways led, directly or indirectly, to num-
erous and fragrant violations of both
the immigration and the Chinese exelu-
zion laws He pointed out that DUR
ing the year between $4,000 and 10000
Chinese sailors entered ports here, and
the rule of giving bond for short leave,
he declared, lis honored in the breach
as much as IN the Observance He
eontended that the law should require
all Asiatics lawfully here to have
certificate of Identification, "by which
the introduction of the Asiatic into the
country by surreptitious methods would
soon become too expensive to be profit
able" " .'t. ,s.r ~"
The report shows that 1,197,s92
, aliens were admitted last year, more
than the total for the preceding year
by 359,T20 g.
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