Bisbee daily review., 1914-02-17
CARM|NtTTI REPORT CALLS ATTENTION ID AS|ATIC PERIL
Commissioner of Immigration
 Says That a Number of Japanese and Chinese Is Increasing Very Rapidly

WASHINGTON, Feb 16.--Comm' s- sioner General Caminetti of the Bu- roau of immigration in his RrAt an. huai report, submitted today to Sec retary Wilson. recommended cnr ain notifications of the Chinese exclusion act, and expressed the opinion that great care should be taker with .he s,aman's" bll pending in Congress, declaring that the Seaman's bill on the ono hand and the immigration and Chinese exclusion laws on the other canp.t be properly enforced unless their terms are brought into substantial and practical accord"
 Commissioner Caminetti made no reference to the general question of Asiatic immigration, other than a comment on aliens employed on yes sels' and what he says is the dan. ger of Chinese and other Asiatics getting in uniawfully by serving as seamen and deserting.
 As to Japanese immigration, he ex. presses doubt as to whether the pho tograph" brides alter having gone through marriage ceremony oy proxy. recognized as legal in Japan, are really entitled to admission. He says he does net believe any such marriage is binding upon the United States in the administration of im- migration laws and also that there is no treaty with Japan, or other ar rangement whatsoever, that provides for the recognition by the United states of the so-called marriage of a woman in Japan with man who may Le fin the United States at the al- legged date of the same" He says there seems tc be need of repetition and emphasis of the statement in the former Commissioner Genera $ re- port. which declared that the prac. tice of admitting such women opens the way tor he introduction into continental United States of large bodies Of common laborers females, tt is true, but nCne the less compet- itors of the laborers Of this country; and this practice must necessarily result in constituting a large native born Japanese population-person who, because Of their birth on Amer ican soil, will be regarded as Ameri- can citizens. although their parents cannot be naturalized."
 Despite the fact that everything possible under existing law is being done, said Mir Caminetti, tc prevent the entry Of Chinese not entitled to be here, Chinese laborers are con stantly gaining admission. in hte guise of minor soas O. merchants. students, natives, or sons of natives" ."
 No one would dispute the pro prlety and advisability of permitting young men cf the Chinese race to ob- try" he adds, provided the privilege is SO safeguarded as to prevent it's abuse But this claim of a student status, now adopted much more ire quently than formerly Is often used as a mere cloak for the introduction into this country. fin violation of the spirit of the law. of young Chinese laborers.'
 As to those Chinese who come in under the United States Citizen class, being returning natives who had been born here. or born abroad of natlve-born parents, the Commis sicner General says there were 1856 Of that class in the past four years and added:
 That 1t may be demonstrated that the number of United States cit izens of the Chinese race Is increas ing at a very rapid rate, although persons of the Mongolian race can not acquire citizenship by natural zation. The present law permittins United States commissioners to make citizens should re repealed. American citizenship is a proud privilege of in
 estimable value and of the highest dignity and should net be granted except upon clear evidence of iigh thereto and the title to same passed upon either by a court Of record ol by the Bureau of Immigration, witt the approval of the Department c Labor"
 As to deportation cases, the Gem missioner General declared hgurei showed that Supreme Courts decision 1912 that Chinese. like all othe aliens, who enter surreptitiously arr subject to deportation by the admins trative process provided in the gen eral immigration laws, was now pro duclng most valuable results e contends that the three-year linn
 He c-ntends that the three-year inl itation on the right to 6eport Chirese if here unlawfully, should be re
 moved in so far as it affects Chl
 nese."
 The employment of aliens on yes sells entering ports here, he says has always led. directly or indirec' ly, to numerous and fragrant viola
 tions cf both the immigration an
 the Chinese exclusion laws II s pointed outs that during the yea between 5000 and 40,OQO Chimes
 sailors entered ports here, and tn
 rule of giving bond for shore leave
 he declared, "is honored in the breae s AS much as in the observance II
 contended that the law should requ'r