New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-16
Caminetti Declares loo
Many Japanese Women
Admitted to U. S.
CHINESE COMING
IN LARGE NUMBERS
immigration Head Condemns Law
Permitting Commissioners to
Make Citizens.

Washington. Feb. lJ.-Commissioner
General Camine,ti OF the Bureau OF I'm
migration, In his first annual report just
submitted TO Secretary Wilson, recon-
mended certain notifications OF the Chi
nese exclusion act. and expressed the
opinion that great care should DC taken
with the seamens bill, pending in Con-
gress. declaring that the 'seamans 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 substantial and
practical accord"
IS TO japanese immigration, Commis-
sioner Caminetti expressed doubt as 10
whether tho photograph" brides, after
having gone through marriage cere-
mony BY proxy. recognized as legal IN
Japan. were really entitled TO adnlis-
sion. He declared lie did not believe any
such marriage is binding upon the United
States I'm the administration OF immiSrs-
ton laws: and also, that there is no
treaty with Japan, or other arrangement
whatsoever. that provides for the recos-
milton b. tho United States or the So
called marriage OF a woman In Japan
with a man who may he IN the Cnited
states at the alleged date OF the same.
"There seems 20 he need continued
Mr. Caminetti. of repetition and empha-
sis Of the statement in the former Con-
missioner Generals report, when dc-
clared that the practice Of admitting such
women opens the way for the introduc-
ton into continental United states o.
large bodies OF common INCONSISTENCIES
II Is true. but none the less competitors
of tho laborers Of this country: and TINS
practice must necessarily result in con-
stituting a large native-born Japanese
neutrality-suspicious. who, because OF tne'I
birth on American soil. will be resarueu
AS American citizens. although their par
erts cannot be naturalized.
Despite the fact that everything PoS'
sjble under existing law is being done 10
prevent the entry OF Chinese not entitco
IN no here. Chinese laborers are constant
Is gaining admission in the guise OF minor
sons Of merchants, students, nauVe5 OF
sons Of natives.
AS 10 those Chinese who come IN uhoer
tho United States citizen class beihs
returning natives who had been born mere
or born abroad Of native-born parents
the Commissioner General said there were
4s5s Of that class in the last four years
Thus II may be demonstrated ne
added. that the number OF United States
citizens Of the Chinese race is increasing
al very rapid rate. although persons
Of tho Monaghan race cannot acquire
citizenship by naturalization.
"Thc present law, permitting Cnl,eo
States commissioners to make citizens
should be repealed American citizenship
is a proud privilege OF inesimable Va'ie
and OF the highest dignity. and should not
be granted except upon clear evdcnce
Of right thereto, and the title 10 same
passed upon either b. court or RECORD
or by tho Bureau of immigration. Win
the approval Of the Department OF La
.bor."
The report showed that 1889 aliens
we're admitted last year, more than inc
total for the preceding year by S''D'