New Britain herald., 1916-12-07
YELLOW PERIL IS
 GENUINE MENACE
Heavy Migration Coming From
 Asia Soon After War

Washington. Dec. 7.-Warnlng against a threatened migration or the nonulations of Western Asia to the United States is contained in the an nual report of Commissioner General Anthony Caminetti of the lmmlgra- tion service, made public today. The war and conditions immediately after it's close will stay the stream for a time. but steps to head it off must be taken before transportation inter ests begin to cull the field for their business, the report declares.
 Immigration from the far Orient, too, is a problem still unsolved, the report sets forth. The systems here tofore devised to deal with it do not promise much improvement and ma chinery for enforcem ent of the Chi nese exclusion act is not adequate or we'll adapted it says. Arrangements for the admission of Japanese, it is declared, should be amended to 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 inn migration law; and the Japanese ar engagement should be so changed as to eliminate therefrom those exceptions that have tendency so to broaden materially the efficiency of the other wise fairly satisfactory plan."
 Hindu immigration which would be permitted more freely under a 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 combatted vigorously with the result that amateur snug gling has been stamped out to a. large degree. Higher prices that Chinese are willing to pay therefore, it is said, has attracted to the business an expert class of criminals who use more scientific methods. A bigger appropriation 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 it's employment service and outlines an extension of it's policy of cooperation with state and municipal employment agencies.
 I. c. c. Recommends Changes. .,
 The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion in it's annual report today to con- gress recommended a sweeping change in methods of esta ab1ishing freight and passenger rates so that shippers would not longer be com- pelled to show a proposed rate unrea- sonable or see it become effective. Carriers seeking to alter a rate would be compelled to show the change was reasonable.
 The recomm mendation is "that by statute congress fix the interstate rates, fares, charges, classifications, rules and regulations existing at a specific date, prior to that of enact ment, as just and reasonable for the past, and provide that no change therein after that specified date may be made except upon order of the commission; with provision that such 1 statute shall not affect the proceed l ings pending at the time of enact l ment.'
 l The purpose of the suggestion is said to be mainly to correct flaws in l the present method by which an in- l jured shipper seeks reparation for l payment of a higher rate than sub sequently is approved by the commis- | sion.
 It was said, however, that the effec1 of such legislation would be .radica l upon methods of rate establishm ent 1 At present tariffs proposing rate changes filed by the railroads become
 operative on fixed date unless sus l pended by the commission ant shown on hearing to be unreasonable unjust or discriminatory If existins
 rates are declared by statute to b,
 just and reasonable, it was pointed
 out, the burden will be on those wht
 wish to change them.
 Report of Attorney General.
 Complete divorcement of transpor
 tation from production by amending
 the comm odities clause of the inter
 state commerce law; authority to su,
 corporations whenever they transac
 business; perfection of neutrality law
 and extension of the right of searcI
 warrant in criminal cases are anon,
 the recommendation of Attorney Gen
 eral Gregory in his annual report t,
 congress.
 The attorney general says that de
 spite the governments victory in tn
 supreme court in the Lackawann; coal company case the railroads ar
 still able to claim that the commo
 dities clause does not prohibit then from engaging in production alon, , their lines, provided only that the sell the articles produced befor transporting them. He urges al
 amendment, introduced at the las ' session of congress, to prohibit a rail road from transporting articles manu
 factured or produced by it or by an,
 corporation it controls or it is af6li