Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1914-02-25
IMMIGRATION IS
RAPIDLY INCREASING

Bureau OF Immigration in his first
/ annual report. submitted Monday to
: Secretary Wilson, recommended GER
tain notifications OF the Chinese
exclusion act, and expressed the
opinion that great care should he
taken with the 'seaman's" bill pend
ing in Congress. declaring that the
seaman's bill on the one hand and
the immigration and Chinese cxclu-
sion laws on the other cannot he
properly enforced unless their terms
are brought into substantial and
practical accord"
Commissioner Caminctti made no
reference to the general question OF
Asiatic immigration. other than 4
comment on aliens employed on
vessels" and and what he says is
/ the danger of Chinese and other
! Asiatics getting in unlawfully by
i serving as seamen and deserving.
Photograph" Brides.
! As to Japanese immigration. he
expresses doubt as to whether the
photograph" brides after having
gone through 4 marriage ceremony
by proxy. recognized as legal in
Japan, are really entitled to admis-
sion. He says he does not believe
amy such marriage is binding upon
the United States in the admins
tration OF immigration laws; and
also that there is no treaty with
Japan, or other arrangement what
soever, that provides for the recog-
milton by the United States of the
so-called marriage OF woman in
Japan with 4 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 for
mer commissioner generals report.
which declared that the practice of |
admitting such women "opens the
way for the introduction into con-
tinental United States of large bodies .
of common laborers. females, it is
true. but none the less competitors |
of the laborers of this country; and /
in constituting large native-bOrn
japanese neutrality-suspicious. who.
because of their birth on American
soil. will be regarded as American
citizens, although their parents can
not be naturalized."
Illegal Entries of Chinese.
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 con-
stantly gaining admission in the
guise of minor sons of merchants,
students. natives or sons of ma
tives"
NO one would dispute the pro-
priety and ACCESSIBILITY of permitting
young men of the Chinese race to
obtain higher education in this
country" he adds. provided the
privilege is so safeguarded 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
into this country, in
violation OF the spirit of the law of ,
young Chinese laborers."
As to those Chinese who came in
under the United States citizen"
class, being returning natives who
had been born here, or born abroad
Of native-born parents. the commits ,
sioner general says there were 1850
Of that class in the past four years, I
and added:
Thus it may he demonstrated ,
that the number OF United States
citizens OF the Chinese race is in
creasing at 4 very rapid rate, al I
though persons of the Monaghan
race cannot acquire citizenship by
The present law per- t
hitting United States commissioners /
to make citizens should be repealed T
American citizenship is a proud priv 2
lege of inestimable value and of =
The highest dignity and should not ;
be granted except upon clear evil
ience Of right thereto and the title
10 same passed upon either by Il
court of record or by the Bureau
Of immigration, with the approval I
IF the department of labor" +
Deportation Cases.
As to deportation cases. the COM a
missioner general declared figures 2
showed the Supreme Courts deci- Il
sion OF 1912 that Chinese. Ike all r
other aliens who enter surreptiti-
ously are subject to deportation by
he administrative process provided
II. the general immigration laws.
vas now producing most valuable
.esults." v
He contends that the three-year +
on the right to deport h
Chinese. if here unlawfuily. should \
,e removed insofar as it affects a
Chinese" T
Aliens on Vessels. :,
The employment of aliens on yes n