Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-12-18
EFFORTS
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BRIDE ARRIVALS
Commissioners Caminetti's Re-
port Talks of Threatened I'm
migration From Orient


Efforts will be made in Washington
to check the immigration of picture
brides" to Hawaii and other parts of
the United States, ii is believed here.
although last week the senate turned
down an amendment to the immigra-
ton bill aiming at these women.
The annual report of the commits
sioner-general of immigration, An
thony Caminetti, has reached Homo
lulu and sounds loud warning against
Oriental immigration. 1t does not
refer directly to the picture bride"
feature, but Caminettis sentiments
on this sort of immigration have al
ready been expressed, as well as his
opinion that Hawaii is not being
'Americanized" as fast as 1t should be,
and that the immigration should be
from the mainland of the United
States instead of Asia.
Last week while the immigration bill
was under discussion in the senate,
Senator Phelan of California intro
duced an amendment to exclude wom-
en- unmarried according to the Ameri-
can law, where men of the same race
are excluded. 1t was aimed at the
picture brides" but Geographic re-
ports say that the amendment was de-
feated.
Hawaii gets more of these pic
ture brides" than any other part of
the United States. Thousands have
come here in the past few years. They
arrive on almost every Oriental boat,
sometimes in large numbers.
Commissioner Caminetti, referring
to the near Orient" and apparently
meaning Japan, says in his report:
This matter of threatened large
immigration from what might be term
ed the near Orient should demand at
tention in advance"
Warning against a threatened mi
grafton of the populations of western
Asia to the United States is contained
in the report of Commissioner Camfn-
ETH. The war and conditions immedi-
ately after its close will stay the
stream for a time, but steps to head it
off must be taken before transporta-
ton interests begin to Gull the field
for their business, the report de-
clares.
too, is a problem still unsolyed, the
report sets forth. The systems here
tofore devised to deal with it do not
promise much improvement and ma
chinery for enforcement of the Chinese
exclusion act is not adequate or well
adapted, it says Arrangements for the
admission of Japanese, it is declared,
should be amehded9to fit conditions
better.
The Chinese exclusion law" says
the report, should be so modified as
to make use of the same administra-
tive methods and means as are en-
ployed in enforcing the general immi-
grafton law; and the Japanese ar
rangement should be so changed as to
eliminate therefrom those exceptions
that have a tendency SO to broaden as
to reduce materially the efficiency of
the other fairly satisfactory plan"
Hindu immigration, which would be
permitted more freely under recent
supreme court decision, will be taken
care of in the Burnett immigration bill
pending in Congress.
Smuggling Of Chinese, the report
says, has been combated vigorously
with the result that amateur SNUG
Cling has been stamped out to large
degree Higher prices that Chinese
are willing to pay therefor, it is said,
has attracted to the business an ex-
pert class of criminals who use more
scientific methods. A bigger appro-
priation is asked to meet the problem.
The war situation. the report says,
has presented many difficult legal and
administrative questions at sea ports
and along the Canadian border.
The report describes the develop
ment of its employment service and
outlines an extension of its policy OF
cooperation with state and municipal
| employment agencies