The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-02-16
On the One Hand and Chinese
Exclusion Laws on Other
Declares Caminetti.
tDY AssoctArEn PREssl

W&SHINGTON,S S9eb. I6.-Commis,
sioner Genera Can1inetti3 OF tho Asl-
reau of Immigration in his frst an
nuaI report, submitted today to Sec
rotary Wilson, recommended certain
| notifications of the Chinese exclusion
act and expressed the opinion that
great care should be taken with the
seamen's bill pending in Congress,
declaring that the 'seamen's bill on
the one hand and the immigration and
Chinese exclusion laws on the other
cannot be sprppEElg enforced unless
their terms are shreught into substan-
tial and PRACTICE accord"
Commissioner Gaminetti made no
reference to thes general question of
Asiatic immigration, other than a
comment on aliens employed on yes
sells" and what he says is the danger
OF Chinese and other Asiatics gettinS
in unlawfully by serving as seamen
and deserving.
AS to Japanese immigration he ex-
presses doubt as to whether the
photograph 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 amy such
marriage is binding upon the Omitted
States in the administration OF immi-
grafton laws; and also that there is
no treaty with Japan, or other ar
rangement whatsoever, that provides
for tue recogn 'tion 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 alleged
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
declared that the practice OF admit
ting such women "opens the way for
the. introduction into continental Uni
ted states of large bodies of, common
Iaborers-femaIes, it is true, but none
the less competitors of the laborers OF
this country; and this practice must
necessarily result in constituting 4
large native-born Japanese Populas
tion-persons who, because of their
birth on American soil, will be re
garded as American citizens, although
their parents cannot be naturalzed
Despite the fact that everything
possible 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 CURSE OF
minor sons. of merchants, students
natives, or sonsgof natives"
EMO one would dispute the propriety
and advisabflity of permitting young
men or the Cn1neSe race 10 OpGAlA q
higher education in this country" he
adds, provided the privilege is 50
safeguarded as to prevent its abuse.
But this claim is a student status. now
adopted much more frequently than
formerly, is oftensused as mere cloak
for the introduction into this coin
try, in violation of the spirit of the
law, of young Chinese laeorers."
AS to those Chinese who came II,
under the United States Citizen"
class, being returning natives whc
had been born here, or born abroad
of native-born parents, the commits
sioner general says there were 1896
of that class in the last four years,
and added:
Thus it may be demonstrated that
the number of United States cltizens
Of the Chinese race is increasing at
very rapid rate. although persons o.
the NongoIian race cannot acquire
citizenship by naturalization. The
present law permitting United States
commissioners to make citizens
should be repealed. American citizen
shin is a proud privilege Of fnestimable
value and of the highest dignity and
srouid not be granted except upoa
clear evidence of right thereto and the
title to same passed upon either by
4 court of record or by the Bureau OF
immigration, with the approVat 81
the Department of Labor