Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-06-12
WAY BLOCKED.
,rrr IMMIGRATION BILL
wv. LARD TIME GETTING
THROUGH SENATE.
EMINENT AIDS POLITICS
aut Persistent Opposition to
p .. Which Provides for tho Ex-
.Insion of All Detectives
From other Lands.
.y GEORGE CLINTON.


r,,bington.-There are bunkers.
'' ID hazards in the senate In the
- the safe passage Of the immi-
aon restriction bill introduced by
''.,cpptative Burnett of Alabama
v which passed the house some
!. 400 by big majority. Call the
st.cIes bunkers, pits and hazards as
], will, they all come under the one
pns 0! politics. The senators ap-
',.nty want to pass this measure.
= \ Is said they are timid about it
.,,use of the coming elections.
= this restriction bill is not given
a, senates sanction at this session,
mod many Washington politicians
~ the votes gained In the country
cause Of inaction on the bill will
ofset by the votes lost for the
anna reason. Il is rather a hard
airg to say perhaps that senators
N moved by political considerations,
MI seemingly some of them are and
.rbaps they are now weighing the
Yitical "fors" and "againsts" of the
wuosition before making up their
minds whether or not to send the bill
trough before adjournment.
So much has been written about
Ne literacy test, which is embodied in
de Burnett bill and which has been
rOiuctive of so much antagonism,
bat sight has been lost of some other
tatures of the measure which are. i'm
urant and which, like the literacy
O7iSion, have brought to it support
Or opposition as mems opinions vary.
Oppose Inflated immigration.
The senate has just received re-
port from the committee on immigra-
don of the American Genetic associa-
ton containing recommendations for
egslation to cut down the number
II immigrants who yearly come into
be United States. The signers of the
pOrt are Alexander E. Canoe of the
Agricultural college,
wing Fisher of Yale university, Pres
ott F. Hall of Boston, and Robert De
Ward of Harvard university. The
igers analysed the causes of in
ated immigration and gave scientific
lthority to support their conclusions.
The senate is told in this report
lat the numbers of insane and men,
lily defective aliens in the United
ates continue to increase. 1t Is af-
med that the number of foreign
IN insane in the hospitals of New
)rk City increased in two years Ii
10 per cent. DR.. E. K. Sprague OF
United States public health serv-
is quoted as saving that probably
ly per cent. of the mentally de-
'tive aliens arriving in the United
ates have been detected 1t is
arged that conditions are becoming
rise rapidly and that the results are
re lamentable because the numbers
mentally defective aliens in this
lntry are in no way segregated and
free to reproduce their kind.
The Burnett bill contains drastic
visions intended to keep out men
ly defective aliens.
Much Hidden AntaOonlsnn.
enough there is antago-
m which shows itself in subtle ways
the provision of this bill which
uld make it virtually impossible for
ective aliens to come into the
lied States. No man nor body OF
n apparently has cared to appear
'nly in opposition to the effort to
engthen the law shutting out de-
tlves. but it is known that the op-
ition is making itself felt in many
kened ways.
the report to which reference has
n made and which has been given
the senate this is said:
No one who is not acquainted
existing conditions can possibly
lie how strong, how steady and
effective is the pull which Is
rted by the families and the
nds of aliens who by the laws OF
United States ought clearly to
debarred, to have those aliens
led. Steamship companies; the
ieties to which the aliens rela-
IS belong: sentimental. but woe
y misguided 'philanthropists', and
ators and representatives who are
ng to please their foreign born
stltuents - all these interests
.e to bring pressure to bear upon
Immigration officials to whom ap-
Is are referred. Those who
II our incoming aliens to be sane
sound and At, ought to stand pc
every honest immigration oHseiAl
does his duty well: and ought
zee TO it that there is no relaxation
the enforcement of our laws to
detriment of the race"
About Antitrust Bills.
President Wilson to win his
t in the senate for antitrust
Station? There is every evir
&c at this writing that the meas
will go through the house OF rep
'ntatives. There is temperance
of predictions that the admins
ion may experience trouble in get
these measures. through the sem
but Judging by the record OF ac-
in the past, it seems
ly that the Democrats will stand