Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-02-18
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Enter IS Employees
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Dslbt! Legality Of japanese
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America

er. General Caminetti Of the bureau
of immigration in his first annual re-
port" submitted today to Secretary
Wilson, recommended certain mOdi-
fic4lEi0ns Of the Chinese exclusion act,
and exposscd the sopinion that great
care. should be taken with the sea.
mans bill pending in congress, de-
claring that "the Seaman's bill on
the one hand and the immigration
and Chinese exclusion laws on the
other cannot be properly enforced I'm
less their terms are brought into
substantial and practical accord"
Commissioner Caminetti made no
reference to the general question on
aliens employed on vessels and what
he says is the danger OF Chinese and
other Asiatics getting in unlawfully
ny serving as seamen and d'serting.
4 As to. japanese immigration, he ex
presses doubt as to whether the "pho-
,tograph" brides after having gone
through a marriage ceremony by
proxy, recognized as legal in Japan,
are really entitled to admission. He
says he does not believe "any such
marriage. is binding upon the United
States in I. the administration of i'm.
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 s0called marriage Of a
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
emphasis of the statement in. the for.
mer, commissioner generals report, in
which he declared that the practice
Of admitting such women "opens the
way for the introduction into con-
tinental United States of large bod.
les Of common laborers, females, it
is true, but none the less competitors
of the lab0rers of this, country, and
this practice must necessarily result
In constituting a large %natiye-born
Japanese population, persons who,
becaus' of their birth on American
soil, will be regarded as American
citizens, although their parents can.
not be naturalized."
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 l:borers are ;0n.
stantly gaining admission, Ia the
guise of miner. sons Of merchants.
students, natives, or sons of natives"
mo one would dispute the proprie'
ty. and %advisability of permitting the
young men of the Chinese race to OBJ
tain q higher education in this coun'
try" he adds, provided the privilege
is SO s~afeguarded as to prevent its
abuse. But this claim of q student
status. now adopted much more fire.
quently than formerly. 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 those Chinese who come In
under the United States Citizen class,
being returning natives who had
been born here, or born abroad of ma.
tive born parents, the commissioner
general says there were 1856 of that
class in, the past four years, and add
ed:
"Thus it may be demonstrated
that the number Of United. States
citizens Of the Chinese ace is in
,~creasing at a. very rapid rate, al
though persons of the monaghan race
cannot acquire citizenship by natura-
;lization. The present law permitting
United States commissioners Ito
make. citizens should be repealed.