The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-02-16
1882 ALIENS
ADMITTED IN 1913
Which Is Several Hundred Thousand
More Than Were Admitted in
Amy Previous Year.

Washington, d. c.. Feb. To- Commits.
sioner General Caminetti CT the bureau
of immigration in his first annual re-
port, submitted to-day to Secretary vii.
son, recommended certain notifications
of the Chinese exclusion act, and ex-
pressed the opinion that great care
should be taken with the "seamen's" bill
pending in Congress, declaring that "the
seaman's bill on the one hand and the
immigration and Chinese exclusion laws
on the other cannot be properly enforced
unless their terms are brought into sub
stantial and practical accord
Commissioner Caminetti made no ref
erence to the general question of Asiatie
immigration, other than 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.
| As to Japanese immigration, he ex-
presses doubt as to whether the photo
graph" brides after having gone through
a marriage ceremony by proxy recog-
nized as legal in Japan, are really en-
titled to admission. He says he does
not believe "any such marriage is bind
ing upon the United States in the adj
ministration 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-ealled marriage
OF woman in Japan with man who
may be in the United States at the az
legged date of the same He says there
seems to be need OF repetition and en-
phasis Of the statement in the former
commissioner generals report, which de-
clared that the practice of admitting
such women "opens the way for the i'm
production into continental United States
of large bodies of common laborers- -fe-
males, it is true, but none the less com
petitors of the laborers of this country;
and this practice must necessarily result
in constituting large native-bo Jap
anese population, persons who, because
of their birth on American soil, will be
regarded as American citizens, although
their parents cannot be naturalized"
Despite the fact that everything pos
sible 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 guise OF minor sons
of merchants, students, natives, or sons
of natives"
NO one would dispute the propriety
and adyisabiiity of permitting young
men of the Chinese race to obtain a
higher education in this country" he
adds, provided the privilege is so safe
guarded as to prevent its abuse. But
this claim of a student status, now
adopted much more frequently than for
merly, 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 these Chinese who came in I'M
der the United States citizen" class, be-
ing returning natives who had been born
here, or born abroad of native born par
ents, the commissioner general says there
were 1856 of that class 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 very |
rapid rate, although persons of the Mon |
golian race cannot acquire citizenship by |
The present law permit |
ting United States commissioners to |
make citizens should be repealed. Amer |
lean citizenship is a proud privilege of |
value and of the highest dig |
nifty and should not be granted except |
upon clear evidence of right thereto and |
the title to same passed upon either by |
a court of record or by the bureau of |
with the approval of the |
department of labor"
As to deportation cases, the commits
sioner general declared figures showed
the supreme courts decision of 1912 |
that "Chinese, like all other aliens, who
enter surreptitiously, are subject to de-
portation by the administrative proc
esses provided in the general immigra-
ton laws. was now producing most valu-
able results" He contends that the
three year limitation on the right to de-
port Chinese. if here unlawfully. should !
be removed in so far as it affects
The employment OF aliens on vessels
ports here. he saws. has al
ways led, directly OF indirectly, to nu-
merOus and fragrant violations of both
The immigration and the Chinese exclu-
sion laws" He pointed ont that during
the year between $4,000 and 10000 Chr
1ese sailors entered ports here. and the
rule of giving bond for shore leave. he
lis honored in the breach as
much as in the observance" He con-
tended that the Law should require all
Asiatics lawfully here to have GER
.ifieate of Identification. by which the
introduction of the Asiatic into the
country by surreptitious methods would
soon become too expensive to be prof
table"
The report shows that l.l97 500 aliens
we're admitted last year, more than the
.otal for the preceding year by S59,720.